Exclusive: La Scala instals woman concertmaster

Exclusive: La Scala instals woman concertmaster

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norman lebrecht

May 14, 2015

This morning, Laura Marzadori completed her probationary six months at La Scala and was confirmed as the new concertmaster – a post she will share with Francesco Manara and Francesco de Angelis.

Laura, who studied in Bologna and Cremona, is just 26.

 

laura marzadori

 

She is not the first woman in the front seat. That glass ceiling was shattered in the late 1970s by the Argentine-Italian violinist Anahi Carfi, who was briefly married to the conductor Riccardo Chailly and left in the 1980s.

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