• Verismo OperaLocal Nonprofit

  • Fort Lee, NJ
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The New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera (Verismo Opera) has been a part of the New Jersey music scene since 1989.  The opera company, a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization based in Fort Lee, New Jersey, is the only professional grand opera company located in Bergen County, New Jersey and the house opera company of the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood, New Jersey.

Under Artistic Director Lucine Amara, one of the Metropolitan Opera’s finest dramatic sopranos, the organization provides performing opportunities for young musicians and artists and sponsors an annual vocal competition held in November with finals generally conducted in the early part of the following year, drawing artists from all over the United States, Canada, and Europe.  The company also organizes opera workshops and offers affordable, highly professional operatic productions in the community.

          

Verismo Opera is recognized for providing up and coming performing artists with the training to attain a successful operatic career.  Several singers, notably Richard Hobson, Frank Poretta, Emmanuel di Villarosa, James Valenti and Irina Rindzuner of the Metropolitan Opera, started on their road to success by performing in its productions.

For more information about the New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera, visit its web site, www.verismopera.org, follow the company on Facebook at http://bit.ly/9JXTP8, or call (201) 886-0561.

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