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Peter Jonas

Sue Lawley's castaway is director of the ENO Peter Jonas.

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the General Director of the English National Opera Peter Jonas. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his teenage ambition to run a great opera house, his subsequent rejection from the London Coliseum when he applied to sweep the stage there, and his return as its director some 11 years later. He'll also be talking about his fight against Hodgkin's Disease, his eleven years as personal and administrative assistant to Sir Georg Solti in Chicago and his plans for the future of the English National Opera.

[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]

Favourite track: Die Meistersinger Act 1 Prelude by Richard Wagner
Book: City of God by Saint Augustine
Luxury: Cyanide, in a joint, in champagne truffle, in a fridge

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40 minutes

Last on

Fri 13 Jul 1990 09:05
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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Music Played

  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Abends will ich schlafen geh'l (Evening Hymn) (from Hansel and Gretel

    Soloist: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf And Grummer

    • Hansel and Gretel.
    • EMI.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    English Suite No. 2 in A minor - Prelude

    Soloist: Ivo Pogorelich

    • English Suites.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Tre sbirri (Te Deum) (from Tosca)

    Artist: Marko Rothmuller Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus

    • Verdi: Requiem.
    • EMI.

  • Better Not Look Down

  • Charles Ives

    Memories

    Artist: Jan de Gaetani

    • Charles Ives Songs.
    • Nonesuch.

  • Castaway's Favourite

    • Die Meistersinger von NΓΌrnberg Overture

      Soloist: Rene Kollo Orchestra: Orchestra of Dresden State Opera House and Chorus

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Piano Trio in D minor

    Soloist: Rubinstein, Heifetz, Piatigorsky

    • Trios by Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn.
    • RCA.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 3 in D minor - 6th movement

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra

    • Mahler: Symphony 3.

  • Book Choice

    • City of God - Saint Augustine

  • Luxury Choice

    • Cyanide, in a joint, in champagne truffle, in a fridge

Credits

Presenter Sue Lawley
Interviewed Guest Peter Jonas

Broadcasts

  • Sun 8 Jul 1990 12:15
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Fri 13 Jul 1990 09:05
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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