A 'Messiah' for the multitudes, freed from history's bonds Half of the 12 soloists in "Messiah/Complex" are Indigenous, including Diyet van Lieshout, a mezzo-soprano from Yukon, who is filmed traipsing through the snow in her traditional mukluk boots. Alistair Maitland via The New York Times. by Dan Bilefsky (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- A gay Chinese Canadian tenor struts through the streets of Vancouver, British Columbia, joyously proclaiming that evry valley shall be exalted as the camera focuses in on his 6-inch-high stiletto heels. 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.