Opera Company of Boston

...Boston's operatic fortunes managed to soar in the following decades with Sarah Caldwell's tumultuously managed yet artistically brilliant Opera Company of Boston. But since her company folded in 1991, the city has not had homegrown opera of...

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...gave local audiences their first fully staged performances in more than a decade. In 1958, Goldovsky's protege Sarah Caldwell founded the Opera Company of Boston, which gained international acclaim for its innovative programming. The...

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The Boston Opera House, formerly the B.F. Keith Memorial Theatre, where the Opera Company of Boston performed from 1980-1990. The Opera Company of Boston was an American opera company located in Boston, Massachusetts that was active...

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...she appeared with numerous opera companies around the United States, including performances at the Baltimore Opera Company, the Opera Company of Boston, the Connecticut Opera, the Dallas Opera, the Houston Grand Opera, the Philadelphia...

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...a successful opera career with companies throughout the United States, ultimately forging a strong partnership with Sarah Caldwell's Opera Company of Boston that lasted from 1961 to 1988. She notably sang in a number of United States...

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...in 2004, Chris Blair, an acoustician, had pushed Clear Channel to keep the pit the same size as during Caldwell's heyday with the Opera Company of Boston, which ceased operating in 1990. Clear Channel refused, wanting to create more...

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...first was a purpose-built opera house opened in 1909 and demolished in 1958. The second, a former movie palace, was operated by the Opera Company of Boston from 1980 to 1991. After suffering severe damage while closed, the theater was...

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...at the Northeastern University Libraries Archives and Special Collections. At about this time (circa 1958), Sarah Caldwell started the Opera Company of Boston, and Louise Pettitt started the Chaminade Opera Group (first performance: 1959).

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...during World War II. He began writing the opera in 1957, and it had its first performance in Cologne eight years later. Sarah Caldwell's Opera Company of Boston presented its American premiere in 1982, and it was next performed in this country...

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She was 82. Once called "the best opera conductor in the United States" by Time magazine, Ms. Caldwell built her reputation with the Opera Company of Boston, which she founded in 1957. She led the company for 34 years, mounting one exciting...

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