Sarah Caldwell dies

Sarah Caldwell, founding director of the Opera Company Of Boston, has died aged 82 from heart failure. Caldwell, who was the first ever female conductor at New York's Metropolitan Opera back in 1975, and who conducted 100 operas during thirty years in charge of the Boston Opera, was once described by Time magazine as "the best opera director" in the US, and was presented with the National Medal Of The Arts by then-president Bill Clinton in 1997.