As I sit in my improvised home office right now, I’m reflecting on the nature of our business here at the Canadian Opera Company. The COC is about gathering people together – our artists, our musicians, our audience – to create and celebrate art. Person-to-person contact is incredibly important for this, and now, as we navigate the most unusual time our company has ever faced, we’re trying to figure out how to exist in a world without that.

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Reflecting on our situation in this extraordinary moment of time, the panther in Rainer Maria Rilke's poem of the same name came to my mind, as well as the many animals in our zoos around the world that share a similar destiny of captivity.

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