MISSING | CULTURAL ATTACHÉ - REVIEW

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by: Craig Byrd | July, 2025

This opera by composer Brian Current and librettist Marie Clements had its world premiere in Vancouver in 2017.

Missing explores the history of Aboriginal women in Canada who went missing or were murdered. The opera is sung in English and Gitxsan (the language of Indigenous people from British Columbia).

At the center of Missing is Ava (Cait Wood), a young woman who has a horrible car accident and while lying on the side of the road she sees the body of a Native girl (Melody Courage). Over the course of the opera (and well after the accident), Ava continues to be haunted by the Native girl. How their paths continue to cross and how it impacts more than just the two of them becomes the centerpiece of this haunting opera.

Current has written music that finds its way deep into your soul and continues to make its home there during the 78 minutes of music on this recording.

Conductor Long, the Continuum Ensemble and the entire cast perform Missing beautifully.