Missing: In Concert

Thursday, July 24 at 7:30pm
Koerner Hall 
273 Bloor Street W., Toronto

Presented by Toronto Summer Music

Marie Clements, librettist
Brian Current, composer
Tim Long, conductor
Andy Moro, technical director

CONTINUUM Ensemble:
Leslie Newman, flute
Anthony Thompson, clarinet
Carol Fujino, violin
Paul Widner, cello
Gregory Oh, piano/electric piano
Ryan Scott, percussion
Michael Murphy, percussion

CAST (in order of vocal appearance):
Ava: Caitlin Wood
Native Girl: Melody Courage
Jess: Andrea Ludwig
Devon: Asitha Tennekoon
Dr. Wilson: Marion Newman
Angus: Evan Korbut
Native Mother: Michelle Lafferty

The Continuum Ensemble joins Toronto Summer Music for Missing: In Concert

MISSING is a groundbreaking and deeply moving chamber opera that gives voice to one of Canada’s most urgent human rights issues: the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

Created by Métis playwright Marie Clements and JUNO Award-winning composer Brian Current, this unforgettable 80-minute work tells the emotional story of two women — an Indigenous woman known only as “Native Girl”, who disappears, and Ava, a non-Indigenous lawyer whose life is forever altered by their tragic connection. As Ava unravels the mystery, she is drawn into a powerful journey of truth, reckoning, and healing.

Set between Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and British Columbia’s Highway of Tears, MISSING blends classical Western opera with Indigenous language and storytelling. Performed in both English and Gitxsan, and created in close collaboration with Indigenous communities, this opera is more than a performance — it is an act of remembrance, resistance, and reconciliation. Critics call it “shatteringly emotional” and “something every Canadian should see.”