Sarah Caldwell (Caldwell Sarah)

(p. 1928)
Born March 6, 1928 in Meriville (pc. Montana), grew up in Arkansas. She practiced in the New England Conservatory, which attracted the attention of the famous conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra with. Koussevitzky and opera impresario Boris Goldovsky. For 11 years Caldwell worked as an assistant Goldovsky in the Opera Theater of New England '.
In 1957 she founded the 'Boston Opera Group' (now 'Boston Opera Company'), in performances which were the world's largest celebrity and who constantly update their repertoire. Among the most famous performances of the troupe - I Puritani Bellini with Joan Sutherland in the main party (the singer's debut on the American opera stage), . Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti and Bellini's Norma with Beverly Sills (her first performance in this opera) and the American premiere of Berlioz's Trojans, . War and Peace by Prokofiev and Schoenberg's Moses and Aaron,
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In 1976, Caldwell, the first of the women stood up for the conductor in the 'Metropolitan Opera'. The leader of the women's movement, it is in the same year made her New York Philharmonic in a special program consisting of works by women composers.