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Filumena, the opera, recounts the tragic tale of Florence (Filumena) Lassandro, a young immigrant living in Alberta’s Crowsnest Pass region during the early 20th century. Forced into a loveless marriage and drawn into a bootlegging scheme, Filumena is ultimately implicated along with her husband’s business partner, Emilio Picariello, in the murder of a policeman. After a sensational trial with national media attention, she went to the gallows at the age of 22, immediately after Picariello.
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