August 8 and 10, 7:30 p.m.
August 12, 2:00 p.m.
Eric Harvie Theatre
$25 · $20 · $15
♥ Arts Lover Passholders Free

Supported by The Calgary Foundation
Music by John Estacio
Libretto by John Murrell O.C., A.O.E.
Co-commissioned and co-produced by
The Banff Centre and Calgary Opera

The second full-length opera created by the acclaimed team of Estacio and Murrell, Frobisher tells a powerful story of love, loss, and adventure in Canada’s North. Set against the backdrop of the Northern Lights and the forbiddingly beautiful Arctic landscape, Frobisher spans continents and centuries.
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The Banff Centre is grateful to the following donors for their generous support of the Centre’s Frobisher creation and production costs: Jackie Flanagan, John and Grace Ballem, Jim Dinning and Evelyn Main, Peter and Jeanne Lougheed, Esther Ondrack, Alice Schultz, C. A. Siebens, David and Carolyn Tavender, Priscilla Wilson, Shirley Wolfe, Stan and Lou Wong, and Jean-Marie Zeitouni.

Meta Incognita (limits unknown) is a fibre arts exhibition inspired by the new opera Frobisher. The title, borrowed from the Elizabethan name for the lands where Martin Frobisher was to search for the Northwest Passage, describes the spirit of Articulation, a group of Canadian fibre artists, as it explores uncharted territory in the visual arts. This exhibition first appeared earlier this year at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary. The artwork will remain on display at the Eric Harvie Theatre - RBC Lobby East until mid September 2007.

Previous Opera events from this year’s Festival

July 7, noon
Rice Studio, Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building
Free

An intimate, inside look at the video elements created by The Banff Centre's Creative Electronic Environment (CEE) for the world premiere of Frobisher.

Saturday, July 21, 7:30 p.m.
Rolston Recital Hall
$15 · $12 · $8
♥ Arts Lover Passholders Free

For as long as there has been opera, composers have painted musical portraits of real-life, larger-than-life movers and shakers — from Julius Caesar to Joan of Arc, from Napoleon Bonaparte to Richard Nixon. Hear how opera sings history to life!