{"id":114686,"date":"2025-06-17T15:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T19:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=114686"},"modified":"2025-06-17T15:55:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T19:55:02","slug":"missing-in-concert","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/event\/missing-in-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Summer Music | MISSING: In Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"
Experience the opera that\u2019s changing the conversation. <\/b>Missing<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0is a groundbreaking and deeply moving chamber opera that gives voice to one of Canada\u2019s most urgent human rights issues: the missing<\/span> and murdered Indigenous women and girls.<\/div>\n
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Created by M\u00e9tis playwright Marie Clements\u00a0and JUNO Award-winning composer Brian Current, this unforgettable 80-minute work tells the emotional story of two women \u2014 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.<\/div>\n
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Set between Vancouver\u2019s Downtown Eastside and British Columbia\u2019s Highway of Tears, Missing<\/span><\/i>\u00a0blends 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 \u2014 it is an act of remembrance, resistance, and reconciliation.<\/div>\n
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Critics call it \u201cshatteringly emotional\u201d<\/i>\u00a0and \u201csomething every Canadian should see.\u201d <\/i>Buy your tickets now\u00a0and witness a story that must be told.<\/div>\n