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Times
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
Top female conductor says fight for orchestra equality has stalled
The world's leading female conductor has said that there is a plateauing in the fight for equality in the orchestral pit as she prepares to bring an opera based on Billie Jean King's epic Battle of the Sexes to Britain. Marin Alsop said that there were still 'archaic, old-fashioned views' that women could not conduct and revealed her shock at this response from even young male conductors when she first took the helm for the Last Night of the Proms. Alsop was speaking as it was confirmed that she will conduct the world premiere orchestral version of Laura Karpman's opera Balls, which tells the story of King's 1973 tennis victory over the male player Bobby Riggs. The production is one of the highlights of
Washington Post
28-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
At the Kennedy Center, the NSO offers a bracing history lesson
On Thursday night at the Kennedy Center, the National Symphony Orchestra gave the D.C. premiere of Julia Wolfe's masterfully crafted two-movement piece 'Her Story,' in a riveting performance led by Marin Alsop and enhanced by the 10 voices of the Grammy-nominated Lorelei Ensemble. An urgent, engrossing 30-minute oratorio on the fight for women's suffrage, 'Her Story' is the kind of provocative, inventive music that American orchestras — and American arts centers — should pursue and program (posthaste). If you can make the repeat on Saturday, you should.
