In 2002, bass-baritone Scott Altman made a crucial choice. Rather than continuing a promising singing career, he and his wife Lisa settled in Princeton and started their own opera company, Opera New Jersey. They soon launched an ambitious four-opera season, which they’ve maintained to the present day.

The company, financially successful, has done equally well on the artistic side. In 2006 – its first year of eligibility – the New …more…