Aussie maestra gets an agent
mainElena Schwarz, presently assistant to Mikko Franck at the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, has signed a worldwide agency deal with Sulivan Sweetland.
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Had this been news if she was male?
Judging from the number of similar posts about male conductors: yes.
It’s Maestro, even for the ladies, and not Maestra, which means schoolmistress.
That is factually incorrect. Maestro or Maestra both mean the same in Italian – they simply differentiate between the gender of the person referred to. Some might think that the male form of the word—Maestro—is the only form to be used when referring to a musical master (i.e. not necessarily a conductor, but a distinguished musician), and I suppose they might think that because this has historically been a male-dominated role. However, it would be incorrect to address a female as Maestro.