**FILE**Opera director Sarah Caldwell shakes hands with President and Mrs. Clinton at the White House on Jan. 9, 1997, after the president presented her with a National Medal of the Arts. Caldwell, hailed as the first lady of opera for her adventurous productions as longtime director of the Opera Company of Boston, died of heart failure Thursday, March 23, 2006, at the Maine Medical Center in Portland. She was 82.(AP Photo/Doug Mills)