Reinhard Peters

Reinhard Peters (2 April 1926 – 4 June 2008) was a German operatic conductor, violinist and an academic teacher at the Folkwangschule Essen. He was the ''Generalmusikdirektor'' for the opera companies Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Theater Münster and Deutsche Oper Berlin. He premiered music in opera and concert, such as Giselher Klebe's ''Die tödlichen Wünsche'', Aribert Reimann's ''Melusine'', Nicolas Nabokov's ''Love's Labour's Lost'', and Wilhelm Killmayer's song cycle ''Tre Canti di Leopardi''. Provided by Wikipedia