Tag: women conductors

  • Will the real “first woman to conduct a European orchestra” please stand up?

    Over the past six months, I’ve seen four different women hailed by clickbait headlines as “the first woman to conduct a European orchestra”… but in taking a look at those articles, I noticed there was a 64-year range between the dates of those women’s conducting premieres.  The biographical info about each conductor was factually correct…