Opera Company of Boston
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Marylou Speaker Churchill, 64, a key violinist, presence with BSO...BSO's concertmaster at the time. After graduate work in California, she freelanced with numerous groups, including Sarah Caldwell's Opera Company of Boston, before joining the BSO under William Steinberg. She was one of the first women to... In this article: Seiji Ozawa, NEC, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston, California, and New England Conservatory |
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boston.com - Top arts and entertainment stories | November 07, 2009
Ghost opera
...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...
In this article: Sarah Caldwell, Boston, Opera House, Huntington Avenue, and Boston Opera House
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Wikipedia | November 05, 2009
New England Conservatory
...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...
In this article: NEC, New England Conservatory, Jordan Hall, Tufts University, Huntington Avenue, New England Conservatory of Music, Harvard University, Boris Goldovsky, and Edmund Wheelwright
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Wikipedia | October 04, 2009
Opera Company of Boston
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...
In this article: Sarah Caldwell, Boston Opera House, La boheme, Boston, MIT, Ming Cho Lee, and Sherrill Milnes
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Wikipedia | October 01, 2009
Muriel Costa-Greenspon
...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...
In this article: Muriel Costa-Greenspon, New York City Opera, La fille du regiment, University of Michigan, Gaetano Donizetti, New York City, and Detroit
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Wikipedia | September 15, 2009
Eunice Alberts
...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...
In this article: Nadia Boulanger, Ludvig van Beethoven, Maria Callas, Symphony No. 9, New York City Opera, Sarah Caldwell, and New York City
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boston.com - Latest theater and arts news | August 29, 2009
For Boston Ballet, Opera House a better fit with improved orchestra pit
...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...
In this article: Opera House, Clear Channel, and The Nutcracker
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Wikipedia | August 23, 2009
Boston Opera House
...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...
In this article: Boston Opera House, Boston, Sarah Caldwell, Thomas Menino, Opera House, Northeastern University, Huntington Ave, and The Nutcracker
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Wikipedia | August 05, 2009
Florence Louise Pettitt
...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).
In this article: Sarah Caldwell, Boston, Boris Goldovsky, Providence Journal, Wheaton College, and New England Conservatory
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New York Times | July 03, 2008
The Brutality of War, on a Big Stage
...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...
In this article: Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Die Soldaten, World War II, German Army, New York City Opera, and Wozzeck
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www.washingtonpost.com | March 24, 2006
Opera Conductor and Impresario Sarah Caldwell, 82
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...
In this article: Sarah Caldwell, Time Magazine, University of Arkansas, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, Nicolai Gedda, and Beverly Sills
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The Opera Company of Boston was founded by the American conductor Sarah Caldwell in Boston, Massachusetts in 1958. At one time, the touring arm of the company was called Opera New England.
During its thirty-three year history, it gained international acclaim for its innovative programming. Under the leadership of Caldwell, the company staged the American premieres of such operas as Arnold Schoenberg's Moses and Aron, Sergei Prokofiev's War and Peace, Hector Berlioz' Les Troyens and Benvenuto Cellini, Luigi Nono's Intolleranza, Alban Berg's Lulu, and Roger Sessions' Montezuma.
Many well-known North American opera singers have performed with the company, including Beverly Sills, Shirley Verrett, and Jon Vickers.
Among the many designers who worked with the company were Rudolf Heinrich, Ming Cho Lee, Herbert Senn, Helen Pond, Gilbert V. Hemsley Jr., David Sharir.
Some of the company's "home" theaters were the Donnelly Theater (now demolished), the Shubert Theatre, MIT's Kresge Auditorium, the Cyclorama, the Tufts University Field House, and the Orpheum Theater. In 1980, they acquired the Boston Opera House. A touring arm was called Opera New England *
The company closed in 1991.
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