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Biography of Sarah CaldwellName: Sarah CaldwellBirth Date: 1924 Death Date: N/A Place of Birth: Maryville, Missouri, United States Nationality: American Gender: Female Occupations: conductor, artistic director Sarah Caldwell Sarah Caldwell (born 1924) is the founder of the Boston Opera Group, now known as the Opera Company of Boston. She is also a conductor and artistic director of national renown. She has won international accolades for her use of the dramatic elements of opera and for expanding the operatic repertoire. She has headed several international exchange programs and was named National Medal of Arts recipient in 1996.Sarah Caldwell, founder of the Boston Opera Group (1958), now known as the Opera Company of Boston, was born in the small town of Maryville, Missouri in 1924. Soon afterwards her family moved to Kansas City. Caldwell, a child prodigy in both mathematics and music, began violin lessons at the age of four and was holding violin concerts before the age of ten. She attended orchestral performances of the Kansas City Philharmonic as well as stage performances by the Kansas City Repertory Theater. She graduated from …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…will pay you money to do what YOU would pay to do if you had the money."Caldwell was the first recipient of the Kennedy Center Award for excellence. She is also recipient of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Award and the 1996 National Medal for Arts. Further Reading There is not as yet a full biography of Sarah Caldwell but her career is outlined in The New Grove Encyclopedia of Music , Stanley Sadie, editor (London: 1980) and in The American Music Handbook, Christoper Pavlakis, editor (London: 1974). Other sources of interest include Uncommon Women by Joan Krufrin (1981), Opera News, New York Magazine, and The New Yorker. Both magazines have reviewed Caldwell's more unusual productions. An article by Winthrop Sargent The New Yorker (Dec. 24, 1973) presents an overall look at Caldwell's life and her work and describes how she created remarkable productions with only a minimal of financial backing and a whole lot of imagination. |