“My approach is to just hope that everybody is judging me as a musician and not as a female. I think it is a waste of my energy . . . if I have to think, ‘OK, they are judging me because I am a woman.’ It just doesn’t help me.” More here: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/02/04/music/first-female-conductor-at-nntt-performs-madama-butterfly/#.UvEUHH-9KK1
