The story of Australia's greatest living conductor rivals the drama of Tár, but its real-life protagonist is relatively unknown. A new documentary for ABC TV wants to change that.
In 1986, at 25 years old, she became the first woman and youngest person to be appointed as resident conductor for Opera Australia . In 1993, she became the first woman to conduct the Vienna State Opera, and then the Vienna Philharmonic in 2005. She is now the first woman chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra , a role she landed in 2019. She is also the first woman to record Richard Wagner's complete Ring Cycle and all of Anton Bruckner's symphonies.
In addition to her role as chief conductor for the SSO, she regularly guest-conducts for other major symphony and opera orchestras around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera.Young had been in New York for just three days before she was called to Washington towith the National Symphony Orchestra , after conductor Christoph Eschenbach fell ill.
Brahms's symphony is around 43 minutes long; it has four movements and is composed for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, and strings. The sheet music runs to 192 pages – all of which Young had memorised. Her family did own a piano, which she learned to play. If she wanted to listen to a particular song, she had to find the sheet music and play it herself, she says.
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