The opera house with all-women conductors
mainThe chief executive of English National Opera has a braggy tweet:
Our last 3 operas have all had female conductors. Kristiina Poska did #ENOWidow, Karen Kamensek did #ENOAkhnaten & Valentina Peleggi did #ENOBoheme (after Alex Joel’s run). That’s a first for us & I suspect is a first for any national opera house in the world. V proud of @E_N_O
— Stuart Murphy (@stuartmurphy100) March 2, 2019
will it help? if yes – way to go …. till the “all female cast” and “all female staff” 😉
PS Men can manage the company and make appearance as a special guests 😉
And all operas by male composers should be banned.
Unfortunately it is also the opera house which is artistically much compromised by years of financial troubles. No match artistically to an equivalent opera house in Berlin, Komische Opera.
And, pray tell, how doe that relate to the topic at hand?
Work it out.
What a posturing ***ole the man is! This is narcissism at its worst……….”look at me, look at me” the tweet is saying!
Most, if not all, executive directors use social media to broadcast the praises of their company. This is no different.
Are these performances for all-women audiences?
What do you think? Why bothering to ask an insincere question?
Oh dear, don’t quite get it, do we?
And are all the operas composed by women, with libretti by women? If not I still feel oppressed.
Congratulations on your right-on box ticking!
Kristiina Poska is alas not making a very distinguished job of the Merry Widow. Mrs Gelb was quite good at Aida though.
I think ENO should focus on survival, and even on getting higher standards – not this kind of waving while drowning.
That Gardiner-led Mastersingers seems a generation ago, and it was only 2015. That was a true company, orchestra, and conductor triumph.
“Positive discrimination” vs merit/talent. That’s the world today.
Player: I hope you mean Gardner and not Gardiner!
Yes, sorry!
Shame they don’t do more opera.
Now if the last three operas had male conductors would he have tweeted that? And if not, isn’t his tweet a form of sexism and descrimination?
“#ENOWidow” is an opera?