In Britain, you do your job. When you do an American TV show, there is a sense of being one with the crew, and there is a leadership element, which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain, you just do it, leave and say, 'Thanks.'
“I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist.”