An Alberta Celebration!

Through numerous special and spectacular events, the 2005 Festival will place particular emphasis on celebrating Alberta’s Centenary.

The publicly and critically acclaimed new opera Filumena, home-grown here at The Banff Centre (in co-production with Calgary Opera) — and poised to take Ottawa by storm in April, during the National Arts Centre’s salute to this province — will be the centrepiece of our Banff Summer Arts Festival.

“Mimi and Madame Butterfly move over,” proclaimed the Calgary Herald, “there’s a new heroine on the block and her name is Filumena.”