Marin Alsop, who was name-checked in “Tár,” said the critically acclaimed film offended her “as a woman ... as a conductor ... as a lesbian.”
Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár in the movie "Tár," and Marin Alsop conducting at London's Royal Albert Hall in 2012.Brooke Sopelsa
“So many superficial aspects of Tár seemed to align with my own personal life,” Alsop said in an interview. “But once I saw it I was no longer concerned, I was offended: I was offended as a woman, I was offended as a conductor, I was offended as a lesbian.” However, the fictional maestro, played by Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett, is also a narcissistic and manipulative abuser who is accused of sexual misconduct by a female underling.
Alsop, who formerly served as the music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and several other real-life female conductors are name-checked by Blanchett’s fictional maestro in the first act of “Tár.” When the title character is being interviewed by real-life New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik, playing himself, she says, “As to the question of gender bias, I have nothing to complain about. Nor, for that matter, should Nathalie Stutzmann, Laurence Equilbey, Marin Alsop or JoAnn Falletta.
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