The opera was founded in 1979 by Wayne Strongman, who was the company's Artistic Director until 2013, when he resigned after a period of internal strife.

[2] He was replaced by Michael Hidetoshi Mori, who is the current Artistic and General Director.

[6] In 2010, for Toronto's Luminato Festival,[7] Tapestry Opera collaborated with the Gryphon Trio and the Elmer Iseler Singers to record the album Dark Star Requiem, an Oratorio on the history of HIV/AIDS.

[10] Its composer, Andrew Staniland, received a nomination for Classical Composition of the Year.

In 2022, the company premiered R.U.R.A Torrent of Light by Nicole Lizee and Nicolas Billon, a new opera about artificial intelligence featuring "new technology built by professors and research assistants in the Digital Futures program at OCAD University.