When we first meet Lydia, she’s about to be interviewed onstage, in New York, by my colleague Adam Gopnik, who is persuasively played, in an audacious stroke of casting, by himself. This woman is alive, ominously articulate, crisply styled, and all too present. It’s true that she happens to be a fictional character, incarnated by Cate Blanchett in Todd Field’s new movie, “Tár,” but that is a footling detail. She has a Grammy, an Oscar, a Tony, and an Emmy-the royal flush of accolades. ![]() She’s the one who conducted orchestras in Cleveland, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, and New York before taking charge of the Berlin Philharmonic. ![]() What do you mean, you’ve never heard of Lydia Tár? Come on, you must know her.
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