1. Sarah Caldwell was an American opera conductor, impresario, and stage director.
18 Facts About Sarah Caldwell
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Sarah Caldwell was a child prodigy and gave public performances on the violin by the time she was ten years old.
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Sarah Caldwell graduated from Fayetteville High School at the age of 14.
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Sarah Caldwell graduated from Hendrix College in 1944 and attended the University of Arkansas as well as the New England Conservatory of Music.
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Sarah Caldwell won a scholarship as a viola player at the Berkshire Music Center in 1946.
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Sarah Caldwell moved to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1952 and became head of the Boston University opera workshop.
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Sarah Caldwell was known for putting together interesting variations on standard operas.
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Sarah Caldwell employed young professional singers in productions that were fully staged and with orchestra.
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At the New York City Opera, Sarah Caldwell staged Der junge Lord and Ariadne auf Naxos, both in 1973.
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Sarah Caldwell became the second woman to conduct the New York Philharmonic in 1974 with an all-female programme of composers including Ruth Crawford Seeger, Lili Boulanger and Thea Musgrave.
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On 13 January 1976, Sarah Caldwell became the first female conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, with La traviata.
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Sarah Caldwell directed John La Montaine's US Bicentennial opera Be Glad Then, America with Odetta, Donald Gramm, Richard Lewis, David Lloyd, and the Penn State University Choirs and the Pittsburgh Symphony.
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Sarah Caldwell appeared with the New York Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the St Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
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Sarah Caldwell directed one non-musical production, the 1981 Lincoln Center staging of Shakespeare's Macbeth, presented on cable TV in 1982.
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Sarah Caldwell has been inducted into the Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame.
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Sarah Caldwell lived for a time at the architecturally significant Lincoln House in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
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Sarah Caldwell died in 2006 from heart failure at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine.
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Sarah Caldwell is remembered on the Boston Women's Heritage Trail.