Sarah Caldwell

...hopeful note but was also quick to point out that his first commitments are to his primary tenants. "I used to watch Sarah Caldwell and thought she was brilliant in some of the things she did,'' he said. "I would love to see some opera brought...

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...though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it. Adapted from the article () '''Sarah Caldwell', from Wikinfo, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.''

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...in Boston, Massachusetts that was active during the late 1950s through the early 1990s. The company was founded by American conductor Sarah Caldwell in 1958 under the name Boston Opera Group. At one time, the touring arm of the company was...

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...director, lost his enthusiasm as soon as he spotted the orchestra pit. Or what was left of it. The space once used by impresario Sarah Caldwell to lead the musicians in grand operas had been partially covered with a thin layer of concrete.

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...masonry wall built across the proscenium. In 1980, after closing as a movie house, the theater became the home of opera director Sarah Caldwell's Opera Company of Boston and was renamed the Boston Opera House. The theater was acquired and...

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...productions. Boston Opera in crisis of 1990: Pettitt temporarily takes mantle from the faltering Caldwell In 1990, when Sarah Caldwell's ill-fated opera company was in the process of folding up in Boston due to profound financial...

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...1962. Koussevitsky had become well acquainted with the Goldovsky family in Russia long before their immigration to the USA. Sarah Caldwell became Goldovsky's assistant at Tanglewood and in Boston, and worked with him for several...

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...Kern. She sang the role of Begonia in the City Opera production of Hans Werner Henze's comic opera "The Young Lord,'' conducted by Sarah Caldwell in 1973. Reviewing the production in The New York Times, Harold C. Schonberg wrote of Ms....

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...the orchestra. At the Metropolitan Opera there have been 336 conductors, just 2 of them women. Those two stories are revealing. Sarah Caldwell broke the sex barrier for conductors at the Met in 1976, thanks to Beverly Sills. After Sills s...

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Sarah Caldwell, a towering figure in American opera as a conductor, director and creative force behind dozens of innovative productions, died March 23 of a heart ailment at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine. She was 82. Once called...

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