Stock Photo - ***March 12, 1993 FILE PHOTO The author Alena Bechtoldova, centre, presents her book ""The world of Petr Weigl"" attended by Petr Weigl and Magda Vasaryova*** Czech film and theatre director Petr Weigl, who won fame with his opera adaptions and directed opera and ballet performances in Czech theatres as well as abroad, has died at the age of 79 years, on July 14, 2018. Weigl directed, for instance, the legendary film poetic drama Raduz and Mahulena (1970), starring Slovak actress and later diplomat Magda Vasaryova and Czech Jan Triska, who was later living in the USA, as well as a number of opera adaptations for the screen, such as Antonin Dvorak's Rusalka, Werther by Jules Massenet, Mary Stuart by Gaetano Donizetti, Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Dmitri Shostakovich. Weigl, who graduated from the Film Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in 1961, shot 46 films in 1964-1998 and he directed numerous opera and ballet performances in Prague, Bratislava as well as Berlin Munich, Sevilla and Paris. A major success was the production of Richard Strauss's opera Salome in the Deutsche Oper in Berlin. (CTK Photo/Jana Nosekova)