For their 25th anniversary, art and fashion publication Visionaire asked different artists to each make a video inspired by one of their issues. I was assigned issue #37 in which they published a collection of memos sent out by Diana Vreeland during her tenure at Vogue in the 60s and early 70s. The language of the memos is so outlandish - and the punctuation so unique - I decided to use it in a way that would disassociate it from its original context - and any reference to Vreeland herself, or fashion - so as to highlight its poetry alone. I asked countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo to collaborate with me and (with a little help from Handel and Scarlatti) arrange some of the memos as snippets of baroque opera, which we then staged and shot as if capturing a rehearsal for an imaginary opera.