Princeton Festival Wins People's Choice Award for Best Opera

Princeton, NJ -- The Princeton Festival has once again received the JerseyArts.com People’s Choice Award for Opera, the festival announced this week.

The awards honor the work of New Jersey’s vibrant arts community. There were more than 21,000 ballots cast statewide this year.

The Princeton Festival was among the more than 110 arts organizations and downtown districts nominated for the awards.

The Princeton Festival was honored at the New Jersey Conference of Tourism for its production of Mozart’s "The Marriage of Figaro."

“Receiving this People’s Choice Award is a special thrill for us,” Richard Tang Yuk, artistic director and general manager of the Festival said. “We put on a full program of performing arts each year with everything from jazz to musicals to chamber music and we are very proud of every performance, but the opera is still a centerpiece. An opera is such a huge production, it’s a portrait of performing arts in and of itself and it speaks to people in so many ways, that to have our opera win the votes of the people in New Jersey is more than gratifying, it’s tremendous.”

Last year the Festival won the JerseyArts Award for opera for its production of Porgy and Bess.

The JerseyArts.com People’s Choice Awards are coordinated through the Discover Jersey Arts program, a co-sponsored project of ArtPride New Jersey Foundation and New Jersey State Council on the Arts aimed at increasing awareness of and participation in the arts.

For detailed results and more information, visit JerseyArts.com/peopleschoice.

For information about The Princeton Festival and its upcoming June 2016 season, including the Benjamin Britten opera Peter Grimes, visit www.princetonfestival.org.

The attached image was provided by the Princeton Festival: The Princeton Festival’s Kerry Perretta accepts the award for Favorite Opera Festival from Adam Perle, President and CEO of the ArtPride New Jersey Foundation. 2016 People’s Choice Award winners were honored at the New Jersey Conference on Tourism at the Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City.