Do women compose differently? 🎼 It’s a question I’m asked often. Music has no gender. Creativity grows out of biography, opportunity, role models, and a craft we learn. But for a long time, women were denied access to that craft — because men claimed it wasn’t “proper.” That’s why their works are sometimes perceived as “smaller.” Not because they were less capable, but because they were simply given less space. In opera, women truly do tell stories differently: different characters appear, diff