Peter Herman Adler

While at the Prague Conservatory, Adler studied with Vítězslav Novák, Fidelio Finke, and Alexander von Zemlinsky.

He was a pioneer of televised broadcast of opera, commissioning such works as Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors and Maria Golovin, Norman Dello Joio's The Trial at Rouen, and Bohuslav Martinů's The Marriage; Jack Beeson's My Heart's in the Highlands, Thomas Pasatieri's The Trial of Mary Lincoln and Hans Werner Henze's La Cubana.

Adler was also involved in the early career development of such singers as Leontyne Price, George London and Mario Lanza.

He conducted the United States premiere of Ernst Bloch's opera Macbeth at the Juilliard School in May 1973.

[2] Adler made only one foray into movies, adapting the music for The Great Caruso in 1950, for which he received an Academy Award nomination.