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Met Opera hosts 4 female conductors in landmark week. From its founding to 2016, there were only 4

NEW YORK (AP) — Oksana Lyniv, Speranza Scappucci, Marin Alsop and Xian Zhang filled their lockers in the guest conductors’ dressing room off the Metropolitan Opera’s orchestra pit. Just four women had ...
The Hill

Rare female opera conductor gives birth and goes back to podium just days later

Lidiya Yankovskaya is the music director for the Chicago Opera Theater. She was pregnant when conducting “Becoming Santa Claus” last month, and she returned to her podium days after giving birth to ...
BroadwayWorld

Opera America Launches Opera Grants For Female Stage Directors And Conductors

OPERA America has announced the launch of the Opera Grants for Female Stage Directors and Conductors program, a new initiative developed to advance gender parity in the field by incentivizing opera ...
Hyperallergic

A Scintillating Opera Is the Met's First by a Female Composer in 113 Years

Tamara Mumford as the Pilgrim, Eric Owens as Jaufré Rudel, and Susanna Phillips as Clémence in Kaija Saariaho’s L’Amour de Loin (all photos by Ken Howard, courtesy the Metropolitan Opera, unless ...