Edmonton Opera, Global Edmonton, and Uniglobe travel invite you to become an opera reviewer! After the opera, share your own review with us and you could win a one-week trip for 2 to Scottsdale, Arizona, or Palm Springs, California!

Simply fill out the form inserted in your opera program, mail it to Edmonton Opera, and you'll be entered to win. For more information, please read the contest rules below.

EDMONTON OPERA REVIEWER CONTEST

THE EDMONTON OPERA REVIEWER CONTEST (THE “CONTEST”) IS INTENDED TO BE CONDUCTED IN CANADA ONLY AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND EVALUATED ACCORDING TO APPLICABLE CANADIAN LAW. THE CONTEST IS OPEN TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE PROVINCE OF ALBERTA ONLY. DO NOT ENTER THIS CONTEST IF YOU ARE NOT A LEGAL RESIDENT OF ALBERTA. NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY. PARTICIPANTS MUST BE OF THE AGE OF MAJORITY OR OLDER IN THE PROVINCE OF ALBERTA AT TIME OF ENTRY. VOID IN WHOLE OR PART WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW. ENTRY IN THIS CONTEST CONSTITUTES ACCEPTANCE OF THESE CONTEST RULES (THE “CONTEST RULES”).

1. ELIGIBILITY. To be eligible for this Contest, an individual must:
   
   
   1. be a legal resident of Canada
   2. be of the age of majority in Alberta or older at time of entry
   3. be legally able to travel to the United States of America

   Employees of CanWest MediaWorks Inc., CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc., Edmonton Opera, and Uniglobe Geo Travel (collectively, the "Sponsors"), their respective affiliates, subsidiaries, related companies, advertising and promotional agencies, and the household members and/or the immediate family of any of the above, are not eligible to participate in the Contest. For the purpose of these Contest Rules, “immediate family" means husband, wife, spouse, mother, father, brother, sister, son and daughter, whether or not they reside in the same household.

   Sponsors shall have the right at any time to require proof of identity and/or eligibility to participate in the Contest. Failure to provide such proof within a reasonable period of time may result in disqualification. All personal and other information requested by and supplied to Sponsors for the purpose of this Contest must be truthful, complete, accurate and in no way misleading. Sponsors reserve the right to disqualify any entry or entrant in its sole discretion, should any entry or entrant at any stage supply untruthful, incomplete, inaccurate or misleading personal details and/or information.

2. CONTEST PERIOD. The Contest begins Saturday October 20^th, 2007 and closes at 12 midnight MST on Wednesday April 30^th, 2008 (the "Contest Period").
   
   
3. HOW TO ENTER. There is no purchase necessary to enter the Contest. To enter, complete the Review Page in the Edmonton Opera playbill, or a reasonable facsimile of the Review Page, available at each of the following Opera performances – CARMEN – October 20, 23, 25, 2007; HMS PINAFORE – February 2, 5, 7, 2008; FALSTAFF – April 19, 22, 24, 2008.  Share your review and mail or drop off your entry to Edmonton Opera, Francis Winspear Centre for Music, 9720 – 102 Avenue, Edmonton, AB. T5J 4B2.  Submission of the entry form constitutes an “Entry” in the Contest. No Entries will be accepted by any other means.
   
   
   1. Limit of one (1) Entry per person, per day.
   2. Multiple Entries by the same person on the same day shall result in disqualification. All Entries become the sole property of the Sponsors and none will be returned for any reason.  All Entries must be received no later than the end of the Contest Period. Entries will be declared invalid if they are late, illegible, incomplete, damaged, irregular, mutilated, forged, garbled or mechanically or electronically reproduced.
   
   
   
4. PRIZE.
   
   
   1. Grand Prize. There will be one (1) grand prize (“Grand Prize”) awarded to the Contest winner (“Winner”) consisting of: a one-week trip for two (2) to Scottsdale, Arizona, US. or Palm Springs, California, US.  The prize includes i) return economy airfare from Edmonton or Calgary to the trip destination; ii) luxury villa accommodation at the Marriott Resort.  The Grand Prize has an approximate retail value of $4,200 CDN. Winner is not entitled to monetary difference between actual prize value and stated approximate prize value, if any.
   2. Prizes will be distributed within two (2) days after Winner has been successfully contacted and notified of their prize and has complied with all Contest Rules and requirements. Winner and their guest (“Guest”) must be available to travel from May 1^st, 2008 to December 31^st, 2008. Should Winner and Guest be unable to travel on the dates and times designated by Sponsors, the prize will be forfeited and awarded to an alternate winner. Winner and Guest will be responsible for transportation to and from originating airport, travel and medical insurance, travel documentation, airport improvement fees, taxes, gratuities, telephone calls, in-room charges and any other expense not specifically described as included in the Grand Prize.
   3. Guests must comply with all Contest Rules.
   4. All prizes must be accepted as awarded and cannot be transferred, assigned, substituted or redeemed for cash. Sponsors reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to substitute a prize of equal or greater value if the described prize cannot be awarded for any reason.
   
   
   
5. WINNER SELECTION.
   One (1) Winner shall be selected as follows:
   
   
   1. On Thursday May 1^st, 2008 in Edmonton, Alberta at 9 am MST one (1) potential winner will be selected by a random draw from all eligible Entries received. Each entrant shall be eligible to win only one prize. The odds of being selected as a potential Winner are dependent upon the number of eligible Entries received. Before being declared a Winner, potential winner shall be required to answer, without assistance of any kind, whether mechanical or otherwise, a time-limited mathematical skill-testing question during a pre-arranged telephone call, and to comply with these Contest Rules.
   2. THE SELECTED POTENTIAL WINNER WILL BE NOTIFIED BY TELEPHONE NO LATER THAN FRIDAY MAY 2^ND, 2008 AND MUST RESPOND WITHIN TWO (2) BUSINESS DAYS OF NOTIFICATION. Upon notification, the selected potential winner must respond by telephone to the contact number provided in the notification, and the selected potential winner’s response must be received by Sponsors within two (2) business days of such notification. If the selected potential winner does not respond in accordance with these Contest Rules, he/she will be disqualified and will not receive a prize and another potential winner will be selected. Sponsors are not responsible for the failure for any reason whatsoever of a selected potential winner to receive notification or for Sponsors to receive a selected potential Winner’s response.
   
   
   
6. RELEASE. Winner and Guest will be required to execute a legal agreement and release (“Release”) that confirms Winner’s and Guest’s: (i) eligibility for the Contest and compliance with these Contest Rules; (ii) acceptance of the prize as offered; (iii) release of each of the Sponsors and their respective parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, employees, directors, officers, suppliers, agents, sponsors and administrators (collectively, the “Releasees”) from any and all liability for any loss, harm, damages, cost or expense arising out of participation in this Contest, participation in any Contest-related activity or the acceptance, use, or misuse of any prize, including without limitation costs, injuries, losses related to personal injuries, death, damage to, loss or destruction of property, rights of publicity or privacy, defamation, or portrayal in a false light, or from any and all claims of third parties arising therefrom; and (iv) grant to Sponsors of the unrestricted right, in the Sponsors’ collective or individual discretion, to publish without any further compensation the name, picture, portrait, likeness, audio and/or video recording, interview and voice and any website dissemination or broadcast thereof of that entrant for advertising and promotional purposes. The executed Release must be returned within two (2) business days of the verification as a Winner or the selected potential winner will be disqualified and the prize forfeited.
   
   
7. INDEMNIFICATION BY ENTRANT. By entering the Contest, entrant releases and holds Releasees harmless from any and all liability for any injuries, loss or damage of any kind to the entrant, Releasees or any other person, including personal injury, death, or property damage, resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, use or misuse of any prize, participation in this Contest, any breach of these Contest Rules, or in any prize-related activity. The entrant agrees to fully indemnify Releasees from any and all claims by third parties relating to the Contest, without limitation.
   
   
8. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. Sponsors assume no responsibility or liability for lost, late, misdirected or incomplete Entries, notifications, responses, replies or any Release, Entrant assumes liability for injuries caused or claimed to be caused by participating in the Contest, or by the acceptance, possession, use of, or failure to receive any prize. Sponsors assume no responsibility or liability in the event that the Contest cannot be conducted as planned for any reason, including those reasons beyond the control of the Sponsors, such as infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or corruption of the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Contest.
   
   
9. CONDUCT. By entering this Contest, entrant agrees to be bound by these Contest Rules, which will be posted at the Edmonton Opera Website www.edmontonopera.com and at Global Edmonton throughout the Contest Period. Entrant further agrees to be bound by the decisions of the Sponsors, which shall be final and binding in all respects. Sponsors reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to disqualify any entrant found to be: (a) violating the Contest Rules; (b) tampering or attempting to tamper with the entry process or the operation of the Contest the Edmonton Opera Website (c) violating the terms of service, conditions or use and/or general rules or guidelines of any canada.com property or service; and/or (d) acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE THE CONTEST WEBSITE OR ANY RELATED WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE CONTEST MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS. SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSORS RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SEEK REMEDIES AND DAMAGES TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.
   
   
10. PRIVACY / USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION. Entrant grants Sponsors the right to: (a) use his or her personal information for the purpose of administering the Contest; (b) use his or her name, photograph, likeness, voice, prize information and/or biographical information for publicity and promotional purposes without further compensation unless prohibited by law; and (c) use his or her name and his or her respective city and province of residence in connection with the Contest Website, other related websites and/or any other media now known or hereafter devised. Personal information will not be provided to any third party other than as provided for in these Contest Rules. Sponsors and any third party agents of the Sponsors will use personal information only for purposes related to this Contest and will be required to protect all personal information in a manner that is consistent with the CanWest Global Communications Corp. Privacy Policy available at: http://www.canwestglobal.com/privacy.html.
    
    
11. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. All intellectual property, including but not limited to trade-marks, trade names, logos, designs, promotional materials, web pages, source code, drawings, illustrations, logos, slogans and representations are owned by Sponsors and/or their affiliates. All rights are reserved. Unauthorized copying or use of any copyrighted material or intellectual property without the express written consent of its owner is strictly prohibited. CANWEST MEDIAWORKS is a trade-mark of CanWest Global Communications Corp., used under license.
    
    
12. TERMINATION. Sponsors reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to cancel, amend, modify or terminate all or any portion of this Contest at any time for any reason without prior notice.
    
    
13. LAW. These are official Contest Rules. This Contest is subject to applicable federal, provincial and municipal laws and regulations. These Contest Rules are subject to change without notice in order to comply with any applicable federal, provincial or municipal laws or the policy of any other entity having jurisdiction over the Sponsors.