Earlier this season Sara Jobin made history as the first woman ever to conduct a mainstage opera at the San Francisco Opera. “At this point the only people who have trouble with the idea of a woman conductor are sometimes board members, especially older women who have had to fight the hard battles themselves. They look at me and think, ‘Why would an orchestra pay attention to you?’ But of course the orchestra doesn’t pay attention to me, they pay attention to the music.”