Sarah Caldwell

Sarah Caldwell ( March 6, 1924 in Maryville, Missouri, USA, † March 23, 2006 in Portland, Maine) was an American opera conductor and opera director.

Caldwell, who grew up in Fayetteville, Arkansas, was a child prodigy and was already at the age of 10 years first public violin concertos. At the age of fourteen, she graduated from high school.

After the completion of Hendrix College in 1944, she attended the University of Arkansas and the New England Conservatory of Music. She won in 1946 as a viola player a scholarship at the Berkshire Music Center. In 1947 she brought Vaughan Williams Riders to the Sea on the stage, eleven years she was chief assistant to Boris Goldovsky.

Sarah Caldwell moved in 1952 to Boston ( Massachusetts) and conducted at Boston University, the Opera Workshop. In 1957 she opened the Opera Company of Boston as a founding director with which they brought as head of a wide range of productions on the stage. She was so well known for their variations of " classics" of the opera.

In 1974 she was allowed to protrude the second woman the New York Philharmonic Orchestra as a guest conductor in 1976 Caldwell was the first conductor of the Metropolitan Opera. She has performed with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

1975 Caldwell received a D.F.A. Bates College. In 1996 she received the National Medal of Arts and was inducted into the Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame; the Time magazine honored her with the name " Music's Wonder Woman."

Sarah Caldwell died on 23 March 2006 at a clinic in Portland heart failure.

• Conductor
• Americans
• Born in 1924
• Died in 2006
• Woman