Calgary Opera Gets A Big Gift. How Big? Uh, Really Big.

“This past weekend, the chief executive officer of Alberta energy company Centurion Energy International, who immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1965 after Gamal Abdul Nasser nationalized his father’s bank, gave Calgary Opera the biggest single gift in its 35-year history.” How much, then, did Said Arrata give? Well, the opera’s not saying, but the Calgary Opera Centre is now the Arrata Opera Centre….