There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.
Taste is changing, style is changing, and players abilities are changing.
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
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?
If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.
Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.