"I've never been interested in having players show off because that seems to me not a musical thing. One of the great things that music has is that it's a social activity, it involves collective work, and if you have a situation where one...

In an ever-changing world, few things are quite as certain as English National Opera's insistence on performing everything they do in English. So I wonder if the company knows how close it came to a rare linguistic excursion. Gavin Bryars tells me that at...