Clemens Hellsberg, president of the Vienna State Opera Orchestra since 1997, “has been a force for change in a body long resistant to it, increasing social awareness and trying to pull the orchestra into the 21st century. The female issue apart, he has fostered the idea of giving back, even making reparations of a sort, as in the performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Nazi concentration camp at Mauthausen, Austria, in 2000.”