We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie.
I just wish, maybe, that I'd started conducting earlier. I was about 40 when I started. Apart from that I don't really have any regrets. Is that bad?
Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.
If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.