Singer

Missing is a powerful opera in English and Gitxsan that tells the story of Canada’s missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, set against the backdrop of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and the Highway of Tears, blending loss and hope in a poignant expression of resilience.

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TSM presents Missing: In Concert

The Royal Conservatory of Music

A highlight of the holiday season, Handel’s Messiah is the consummate masterpiece, eliciting joy, triumph, and majesty. Together with four outstanding vocal soloists and the 80-voice Symphony Nova Scotia Chorus, the Symphony presents this glorious oratorio, a beloved annual tradition and highlight of the Christmas season for millions around the world each year.

Handel’s Messiah

Dalhousie University

Così fan tutte, roughly translated as “they are all like that,” tells the story of sisters Fiordiligi and Dorabella facing the conundrum of remaining faithful to their lovers Guglielmo and Ferrando. Our production updates the setting from the 1790s to a Rocky Mountain resort in the 1930s. The sisters arrive for their vacation. They cast eyes upon, and promptly fall for, two dashing young mounties. Exasperated and charmed by the couples mooning around the hotel, resort staffer Despina teams up with long-term resident Don Alfonso to play a double trick on them, testing both the depth of their affections and their assumptions about their own motivations. The story walks the tightrope between Opera Seria (serious plots) and Opera Buffa (comedic plots) and Mozart takes full advantage of these moods weaving his music between the two contrasts throughout.  Flighty and fickle? Faithful and true? One could argue that couples must discover their balance to know their future.  While a happy ending is never guaranteed, these lovers throw themselves into the discovery with flirtation and fun, while also questioning what motivates their true desires.

Tenor

Asitha Tennekoon

Events

Past events

Jul 24, 2025

TSM presents Missing: In Concert · The Royal Conservatory of Music

20 - 21 Dec, 2024

Handel’s Messiah · Symphony Nova Scotia

Future and recently performed repertoire

Singer in Così fan tutte by Mozart

Opera Kelowna

Devon in Missing by Current

The Royal Conservatory of Music

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