A Powerful Opera That Gives Voice to the Voiceless. Experience the opera that’s changing the conversation. 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.”