Portrait of Chief Conductor Joana Mallwitz | EUROtoday

Joana Mallwitz's success is inspiring, and in its present exaggeration it’s worrying, typically oppressive. Mallwitz's first appearances as the brand new chief conductor of the Konzerthaus Berlin in autumn 2023 all resulted in storms of jubilation that have been as comprehensible as they have been predictable. The enthusiasm was not solely defined by the truth that for the primary time a feminine chief conductor was taking workplace within the classical music metropolis of Berlin: lastly a lady, embarrassingly late!