Boheme Opera Company, Inc

Boheme Opera enriches the region with accessible, affordable, and artistically professional opera. They are committed to preserving and promoting the operatic art form and introducing it to new and diverse audiences through productions, educational and outreach programs, community involvement, business partnerships, and collaborations with other arts organizations.

They envision continued growth as an opera advocate through their main stage and outreach endeavors, generating new, younger, and more diverse audiences, while being an important source for seeding and building promising performance careers.

The seed that grew into Boheme Opera was planted in 1981 in the form of a musicians’ guild called The Boheme Club which was named after the club formed by opera composer, Giacomo Puccini. Developed by Trenton conductor/educator Joseph Pucciatti and his wife, concert pianist, opera lecturer, and teacher Sandra Milstein-Pucciatti, the Club presented eight evolutionary years of concert series, outdoor festivals, and dinner opera, before evolving into opera producer and presenter in 1989.

As a generational company, Boheme Opera has gained recognition as three Citations of Excellence in 2007, 2008, and 2009 from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. They have consistently featured unprecedented diversity in their casting, as well as offering main stage opportunities to children’s choruses, teenage choristers, emerging artists, and persons with disabilities.