Opera Builder Award: Richard Bradshaw.

From: Opera Canada | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: Gooding, Wayne | Copyright information

On a warm, sunny September afternoon, Richard Bradshaw is cooped up in the large rehearsal room of the Hummingbird Centre in Toronto, conducting a rehearsal for the Canadian Opera Company's season-opening production of Britten's Peter Grimes. It's a big room, though with the full orchestra, about 10 singers and the COC's music staff ranged along time back, following the proceedings with their scores, there's not much room to move. They've all been at it for about an hour, and right...

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