Ravinia Festival chief conductor says it’s ‘anti-woman’ to portray Cate Blanchett’s character as an abuser, when it’s usually men committing abuse in the classical music field.
Marin Alsop, the world’s foremost woman conductor, is no fan of “TÁR,” the acclaimed film about an unscrupulous woman conductor.
“I was offended as a woman, I was offended as a conductor, I was offended as a lesbian,” Alsop said of the movie, which stars Cate Blanchett as Berlin Philharmonic leader Lydia Tár.
Alsop, chief conductor at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra over the weekend in two performances of works by 21st-century women composers.
Like Alsop, Blanchett’s character is gay, married to a musician and a protege of Leonard Bernstein.
