The five most powerful women in Europe’s music
mainYou’ve met the American power women. Here are the top five Euros.
1 Helga Rabl-Stader
President of the Salzburg Festival since 1995, has seen off several directors
2 Anne-Sophie Mutter
The Angela Merkel of the concert circuit. Always gets her way.
3 Jude Kelly
Artistic director of London’s South Bank, Europe’s biggest arts centre.
4 Kathryn Enticott
Top-drawer conductors’ agent, running the diaries of Welser-Möst, Alan Gilbert, Semyon Bychkov and more.
5 Anna Netrebko
Poster girl to the Russian kleptocracy, Austrian citizen by choice.
Five more coming up right here.
(Hmm. Would one of the Wagner clan who rule Bayreuth figure on the list?)
Their moment will come. Ah…
About twenty years ago while I was staying in the Hotel Intercontinental on Red Square, there was a broadcast of a Tchaikovsky symphony on the TV. The camera stayed unerringly on Semyon Bychkov’s face the entire time, affording me the opportunity to study those lips for a good forty-odd minutes. Twenty years on, I still don’t know whether they’re real or whether he borrowed them off a Spitting Image puppet.