Opera Company of Boston

American opera company

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The Opera Company of Boston was an American opera company founded in 1957 by Sarah Caldwell. Caldwell, an innovative conductor and producer, established the company in Boston with the goal of staging challenging and lesser-known works. The company became known for its daring interpretations of standard operas and for presenting American premieres of contemporary operas. Notable productions included original performance versions of Verdi's Don Carlos and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, as well as American premieres of Schoenberg's Moses und Aron and Hindemith's Mathis der Maler. The Opera Company of Boston faced financial difficulties and closed in the early 1990s.1

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…eventually became known as the Opera Company of Boston, for that city; the company closed in the early 1990s owing to financial difficulties.
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…eventually became known as the Opera Company of Boston, for that city; the company closed in the early 1990s owing to financial difficulties.
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