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British TV executive Jeremy Isaacs will take over as the new general director of the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, the London opera company announced Wednesday. Isaacs, 54, has headed the independent arts-oriented Channel 4 since it began in 1981. He will replace Sir John Tooley, whose contract ends in the summer of 1989.
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