Marin Alsop in front of the Metropolitan Opera, where she recently made her debut leading John Adams’s El Niño.
In Monday’s (5/6) New York Times, Zachary Woolfe writes, “Last month, Marin Alsop made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera, conducting a new production of John Adams’s El Niño. Next season, she will lead the Berlin Philharmonic, perhaps the world’s pre-eminent orchestra, for the first time. She recently recorded Mahler’s Ninth Symphony with her ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra at the storied Musikverein… Alsop looks toward the next chapter of her already groundbreaking career: another American orchestra. When she became the Baltimore Symphony’s music director, in 2007, she was the first woman to lead one of the country’s 25 largest orchestras. (There is still only one woman in that group: Nathalie Stutzmann at the Atlanta Symphony.) Alsop hoped she would continue her steady rise and take on one of the handful of the most venerable, resource-rich American ensembles … Though nothing has worked out, she is still hungry for another chance at a directorship. ‘I love guesting,’ she said. ‘But really, it pales for me in comparison with being able to build something in a community.’… At the Ravinia Festival, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s summer home, … she became chief conductor and curator in 2020.”
