The tall blonde woman acts like an expressive dancer in front of the State Opera Orchestra in the Munich National Theater. Joana Mallwitz doesn’t need scores, neither for Wolfgang A. Mozart’s Linz Symphony nor for Pjotr Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique. With large gestures, small-scale tactics are alien to her, she animates the musicians she is conducting for the first time in an academy concert. Dressed entirely in black, she consistently spreads a good mood.