Then Canadian Opera Company general director Richard Bradshaw died on this day in 2007, slightly more than a year after opening the doors to the Four Seasons Centre, which would not have been built without his determination.
Here’s a little clip of him at work as music director of the COC Orchestra in a smaller triumph, the spring-2007 production of Richard Strauss’s Elektra that had me on the edge of my seat from curtain to curtain.
Bradshaw introduced Toronto to Ewa Podles, whom he accompanied from the opera pit as well as from the stage at Roy Thomson Hall.
Podles sings Klytemnestra and soprano Susan Bullock has the title role:
John Terauds