Now I want to see this film. I am the kind of person who appreciates more than likes classical music and I know that not only does it have a dead white man problem with its composing, it has a bigger racial and gender disparity at just about every level and singing is where its actually doing the BEST compared to everything else. I know more about classical music then most people on this blog and I couldn't come up with a female CONTEMPORARY classical music composer, much less one who might have existed even a hundred years ago. And in this case the institutional sexism argument, which I think doesn't carry over with a lot of art forms today, is VERY much in effect here. I know the kind of toxic masclunity then surrounds the Taylor SWIFTs and Beyonce's of todays world: I'm pretty sure the closest most woman in Mozart's day were allowed to classical music was to marry a singer or composer and be happy to be considered 'his muse' (another sexist term which I loathe in this context)

It's already considered that classical music and opera are endangered n society is because its an elitist art form and that's definitely not going to improve if it doesn't become more inclusive. That will be a harder row to climb than anything else but just as television has become better because of the greatest inclusivity of diversity at every level over the past decade, it's perhaps the only way for this brilliant art form to have a future.