Vancouver-based Métis soprano Melody Courage, of Dene, Cree and Chipewyan descent, gained national attention as The Native Girl in the 2017 world premiere of Marie Clements’ and Brian Current’s opera Missing, co-produced by City Opera Vancouver and Pacific Opera Victoria. Missing gives voice, in English and Gitxsan, to the story of Canada’s missing and murdered Indigenous women. Courage received her degree and diploma in Opera Performance from the Vancouver Academy of Music after music studies at the University of British Columbia, followed by guest appearances in Vivaldi’s Gloria with the National Arts Centre Orchestra and The Messiah with the Prince George Symphony Orchestra.