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Opera directed by Linda Brovsky will feature the renowned Italianbass Ferruccio Furlanetto as Don Quichotte with Quinn Kelsey as hisfaithful sidekick Sancho Panza and Ekaterina Gubanova as his belovedDulcinée. Johannes Debus conducts.Both productions at Opera Atelier this season are revivals. In the fallfrom October 26 to November 2 is Mozart’s The Abduction from theSeraglio first mounted by OA in 2008. In the spring is Lully’s Perséefirst mounted by OA in 2000 and revived in 2004. OA co-foundersMarshall Pynkoski and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg are hot off thesuccess of their production of Mozart’s Lucio Silla (1772) at this year’sSalzburg Festival which has led them to be invited to mount thework at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala. Abduction will feature LawrenceWiliford as Belmonte and Adam Fisher as his servant Pedrillo who willtry to rescue Belmonte’s beloved Konstanze (Ambur Braid) and CarlaHuhtanen her servant Blondie (Blondchen) from the ever-watchfulOsmin (Gustav Andreassen).In Persée, Christopher Enns will make his OA debut as an hautecontrein the title role. Mireille Asselin will be his beloved Andromède,Peggy Kriha Dye her rival Mérope and Olivier Laquerre will singsnake-haired monster Méduse. David Fallis conducts the TafelmusikBaroque Orchestra for both productions. After its Toronto run OA willtake Persée to Versailles from May 23 to 25 where it has not been seensince it inaugurated the Royal Opera House there in 1770.Toronto Operetta Theatre has a lively season on offer. It begins onNovember 3 with The Rowdy Señorita, a concert of excerpts fromthe quintessential Spanish zarzuela, La Revoltosa (1897) by RupertoChapí (1851–1909). The señorita of the title is Mari-Pepa, who garnersmarried women’s wrath by flirting with their husbands. The TOT’sholiday operetta is Franz Lehár’s ever-popular The Land of Smiles(1923) running from December 27, 2013, to January 5, 2014. This willbe the TOT’s third presentation of the work and its first since the2002/03 season.The TOT’s last presentation is the Canadian premiere of The CousinVOICEBOXOPERA IN CONCERTGuillermo Silva-MarinGeneral Directorwww.operainconcert.com 416-366-7723 | 1-800-708-6754thewholenote.com September 1 – October 7, 2013 | 23