Community opera
Together with local residents, Opera Zuid creates an annual community opera based on the lives and stories of people in Maastricht, with the Malpertuis district of Maastricht as its home base. The personal stories of the residents and music are brought together in these unique performances by director Tamara Jongerden, singing coach and assistant director Ginette Puylaert and musical director Tim Sabel to form the music-theatrical Buurt Opera Malpertuis (BOM).

Participation
But BOM is more. There is not only a special encounter between local residents and Opera Zuid and its surroundings. There will also be a surprising encounter between local residents, opera singers and young musicians from the Maastricht Conservatory. This makes BOM, in the words of director Tamara Jongerden, ‘a participatory, social, artistic music theater project, in which opera is used for, by, with and about the residents of the neighborhood themselves.’