This Singer Spent The Entire Rehearsal Period In The Hospital And Still Triumphed On Opening Night

Mezzo-soprano Mireille Lebel was set to sing the female lead, Penelope, in Monteverdi’s Return of Ulysses for Toronto’s baroque opera company, Opera Atelier, when she suffered third-degree burns in an accident. But she was determined not to miss out up on the project – and she didn’t. Here’s how she and the company pulled it off.