Pivot to Film = Global Audiences
During the early-COVID era, AtG adapted and transformed Handel’s Messiah into a feature film showcasing dozens of singers across Canada performing in outdoor spaces. Messiah/Complex was offered free online to audiences enduring lockdowns around the world, and the performance-film became a global phenomenon with over 140,000 viewers from over 40 countries, earning international media attention from: the BBC, Radio France, NY Public Radio’s New Sounds, and the NYTimes, which hailed the film as “A Messiah for the Multitudes, Freed from History’s Bonds.” AtG continues to create contemporary, experimental cinematic operatic works, including Sāvitri, Requiem, BOUND, and Identity: A Song Cycle.