Ranked #19 in the 2008 Telegraph's list "the 100 most powerful people in British culture".
[on writing the libretto for a new opera ('For You': 2008)] What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a...
Ian Russell McEwan
Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK