Opera Chic gets a huge kick out of hearing composers conduct their own work, even if some of them aren't really gifted conductors to begin with (famously, we learn from letters, Verdi's own instructions to his singers could be extremely difficult to figure out; and even a saintly man such as our beloved Carlo Maria Giulini, who was allergic to speak ill of other people, used to say that Stravinsky was a genius of a composer but a "terrible, terrible conductor").
That's why she is very tempted to drive down to Ravenna, two weeks from now, to listen to il maestro Krzisztof Penderecki conduct the wonderful kids of Orchestra Cherubini in his Concerto Grosso per Tre Violoncelli e Orchestra with a bonus Beethoven 4 thrown in to add to the awesomeness.