"She sings, she thinks, she directs"
: the music magazine
Diapason
apologized on Tuesday for this front page on conductor Barbara Hannigan and for readers who felt
"offended" by this
"clumsy"
formulation .
Canadian conductor and soprano Barbara Hannigan herself tweeted her bitterness, quipping:
"Indeed, I'm known for thinking, but who would have thought thinking made headlines?"
No “malicious intent”
A title
"is necessarily a shortcut and it had no other purpose than to summarize the content of the interview in a brief formula",
justified Diapason on its social networks.
“No doubt there were other ways of expressing this idea, lending less to confusion”,
continues the review, defending itself from any
“malicious intention”.
This controversy comes a few days after that around the magazine
Le Film français,
which had only men on the cover of its last edition to illustrate the
"reconquest"
of French cinema.
“Any discomfort with this blanket?”
, commented the 50/50 collective, which campaigns for equality, parity and diversity in the film and audiovisual industry.
"If we bother you, don't hesitate to say so
," also tweeted director Audrey Diwan, who won the Golden Lion in 2021 in Venice with her film
The Event.
Le Film français
had regretted an
“unfortunate choice”
and
“unrepresentative”
of the sector.
