No budget figures have been released, but Fields cited the size of the Fargo-Moorhead Opera, which puts up two full-scale operas per year, as a goal eventually to be surpassed.

Fields has discussed the possibility of using the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra as the festival's pit orchestra with DSSO executive director Andrew Berryhill. He told the News Tribune that he hoped to create new sets and costumes to "put our own artistic stamp on everything we do."

Duluth has not had a regular opera season since the mid 1980s.

The committee presented its plans for the festival at an informal cabaret over the weekend at the Sacred Heart Music Center.