Sarah Caldwell

Enjoying Opera (76 minutes)

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Sarah Caldwell is an American opera director and conductor who founded The Opera Company of Boston. In this conversation, she offers expert advice for enjoying opera.

She staged the American premieres of Arnold Schoenberg's Moses and Aron, and other rarely perfomred operas.

Caldwell was born in Maryville, Missouri. She attended the New England Consevatory of Music, where she studied opera production, stage design, and conducting, and also violin and viola. Caldwell taught at the Berkshire Music Center from 1948 to 1952. From 1952 to 1960, she headed the Opera Workshop Department at Boston University. In 1976, she became the first woman to conuct at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. In 1983, she became artrisitic director of the New Opera Company of Israel