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Reinhard J. Brembeck
It’s women’s summer. The Salzburg Festival will open next Sunday with a concert by the conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, at the Bayreuth Festival, led by a woman, the following week the first woman since the festival began in 1876: Oksana Lyniv. And the festival in Aix-en-Provence presented the school drama “Innocence”, a world premiere composed by a woman, Kaija Saariaho, conducted by a woman, Susanna Mälkki, and written by the novelist Sofi Oksanen. In addition, in Salzburg there is the resumption of her grandiose Mozart “Così” from the previous year, conducted by Joana Mallwitz. There has never been so much woman. The classical music scene, which has traditionally been firmly in the hands of men in spite of all emancipation, seems to be changing and opening up to a future that is increasingly female. Really?