This is not your grandparents' Messiah
This is not your grandparents' Messiah
By Dan Bilefsky
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A gay Chinese-Canadian tenor struts through the streets of Vancouver, joyously proclaiming that "ev'ry valley shall be exalted" as the camera focuses in on his 6-inch stiletto heels.
Messiah/Complex soloist Julie Lumsden on set for her video shoot on Lake Louise, AB.
Credit:Daniel Thomson
A Tunisian-Canadian mezzo-soprano reimagines Jesus as a Muslim woman in a headscarf.
In Yukon, an Indigenous singer praises the remote snow-covered landscape in Southern Tutchone, the language of her ancestors.
"This is not your grandparents'