Season announcements, it seems, are like the King Street streetcar(1). You wait for ages then three come along at once. This time it’s Opera Atelier announcing the 2017/18 season. As ever there are two productions. A remount of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro runs October 26th to November 4th. The cast icludes Douglas Williams, making his Opera Atelier debut, in the title role, with Mireille Asselin (Susanna), Stephen Hegedus (Count Almaviva), Peggy Kriha Dye (Countess Almaviva), Mireille Lebel (Cherubino), Laura Pudwell (Marcellina), Gustav Andreassen (Bartolo), Christopher Enns (Basilio/Don Curzio), Olivier Laquerre (Antonio), and Grace Lee (Barbarina). This one will be sung in English.
Patrick Jang, Carla Huhtanen and Phillip Addis in “The Marriage of Figaro” (2010). Photo by Bruce Zinger.
The spring show is Monteverdi’s The Return of Ulysses. Krešimir Špicer sings the title role. and is joined by Mireille Lebel (Penelope), Carla Huhtanen (Fortuna/Melanto), Christopher Enns (Telemaco), Isaiah Bell (Eurimaco), Aaron Sheehan (Eumete), Douglas Williams (Suitor), Kevin Skelton (Suitor/Jupiter), Michael Taylor (Suitor), Laura Pudwell (Nurse), Stephen Hegedus (Neptune/Time), and Meghan Lindsay (Minerva/Cupid). The run is from April 19th to 28th.
Direction, choreography, design and conducting is by the usual suspects. More details, subscription information etc at www.operaatelier.com
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That’s why we call it the banana run! Ann Ann Summers Dossena Founder/Director International Resource Centre for Performing Artists Tel: 416 362 1422 http://IRCPA.net Workshops and Encounters 2015: https://youtu.be/6caG3FBu0O8
Canada Day Concert.Rome.July 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2eWmNE1as4
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