I remember a favorite old college T-shirt, yellow with blue lettering, proudly proclaiming “a century of women on top” (this from a women’s college), which finally got so shredded from overuse that I had to throw it out. Back when I first got that shirt, which is a long time ago now, I think I would have been shocked to consider how little headway women have made at the very top echelons of the arts. I got thinking about this after a spate of articles on the topic appeared in major newspapers last week in L.A., Washington, D.C., and London. The theme of all these articles was how few women are employed as top-level theater directors, choreographers receiving big commissions, and music directors of major orchestras.
Ironically, these articles—which appeared in The Guardian (choreographers) and The Los Angeles Times (music directors) and The Washington Post (theater directors)—appeared the same week that the Metropolitan Opera’s performance of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice aired on SundayArts. read more
subscribe to RSS feed
find SundayArts on Facebook
