Marin Alsop, a world-renowned conductor name-checked in “Tár ... Alsop denounced the prestige drama’s depiction of Lydia Tár — a fictional, abusive, narcissistic maestro who bullies ...

Lydia Tár’s real name is Linda Tarr. 2. She was born in Staten Island ... Leonard Bernstein was her mentor as an emerging conductor. 5. Tár was the first female chief conductor of the Berlin ...

She has sprung from a working-class background (she’s really Linda Tarr of Staten Island ... thinking it’s a biopic of a living conductor named Lydia Tár — and they google her, asking ...

Lydia Tár is giving the Berlin Philharmonic a briefing on Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. Her baton whips the air; the ensemble closely follows. The rehearsal gives an insider view on the internationally ...

Lydia, whose birth name we learn is Linda Tarr, is more isolated than ever ... Merlant), and colleagues (she is usurped in Berlin by a conductor, played slimily by Mark Strong).

To play the fictional role of Lydia Tár, world-renowned conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, Blanchett learned to conduct music, play the piano and speak German — not all at once, thankfully ...

Written and directed by Todd Field (“In the Bedroom”), the slow-burn, #MeToo drama exposes the fall from grace of Lydia Tár (Blanchett), a renowned conductor and composer for the Berlin ...

One of the major influencers in Lydia Tár’s career is her mentorship under famed American conductor, Leonard Bernstein. Throughout Todd Field’s faux-biopic, TÁR, the embattled conductor ...

Cate Blanchett's performance in the film Tár as Lydia Tár, the world-renowned composer-conductor, is so convincing and utterly poetic that she had many audiences fooled into thinking Tár was a ...

Lydia Tár was also a chief conductor of a large Berlin orchestra, and Blanchett bears more than a passing resemblance to Mallwitz. The Konzerthausorchester was even accused of deliberately ...