The opera house with all-women conductors

The opera house with all-women conductors

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norman lebrecht

March 03, 2019

The chief executive of English National Opera has a braggy tweet:

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  • Alexander says:

    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 😉

  • Mustafa Kandan says:

    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.

  • Ellingtonia says:

    What a posturing ***ole the man is! This is narcissism at its worst……….”look at me, look at me” the tweet is saying!

    • Bruce says:

      Most, if not all, executive directors use social media to broadcast the praises of their company. This is no different.

  • RW2013 says:

    Are these performances for all-women audiences?

  • John Rook says:

    Congratulations on your right-on box ticking!

  • Player says:

    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.

  • Mike Schachter says:

    Shame they don’t do more opera.

  • M McAlpine says:

    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?

  • Nik says:

    “#ENOWidow” is an opera?

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