Michael Cooper Photographic

Actors spend so much time inhabiting other people’s stories, but what interests me is the moment in between — when the performance drops and the person is simply present. This was one of those moments with David # actor

39 years photographing the Canadian Opera Company — and this is where the story sharpens.
Inside the dress rehearsal of Rigoletto. A curse is spoken. A father’s love curdles into desperation. Power, betrayal, and vengeance close in as fate tightens its grip. Final breaths, last notes, light carved from shadow—an invited audience watching as tragedy takes its course.

Conductor Johannes Debus 
Director Christopher Alden
Set & Costume Designer Michael Levine 
Revival Lighting Designer Mikael Kangas 
Original Lighting Designer Duane Schuler Chorus master Photos
1 - Sarah Dufresne sarahdufresnesoprano as Gilda and Quinn Kelsey as Rigoletto
2 - Zoie Reams as Maddalena and Quinn Kelsey as Rigoletto
3 - Nick Murphy as the Usher, Quinn Kelsey as Rigoletto and Sarah Dufresne as Gilda
4 - Quinn Kelsey as Rigoletto and Sarah Dufresne as Gilda
5 - Quinn Kelsey as Rigoletto, Sarah Dufresne as Gilda and members of the chorus.
6 - Chen Peixin as Sparafucile, Quinn Kelsey as Rigoletto
With the Canadian Opera Company .costumes

What an honour to photograph Frank Palmer, a true advertising legend, at the “Ch-Ch-Changes” event.
Fun full-circle moment: I first photographed Frank years ago when he won the Yahoo Big Idea Chair—during that session, he casually painted a hot dog. Because of course he did.
Decades of ideas, leadership, and influence… and still surprising the room. Exactly why he’s one of a kind. Yahoo ads AD