Will Crutchfield’s Teatro Nuovo will make its New Jersey debut this month, giving statewide audiences the opportunity to experience, in their own backyard, the performance ensemble’s unique bel canto style through historically informed performances.

Two semi-staged operas — Gaetano Donizetti’s lyric tragedy “Poliuto” and Federico and Luigi Ricci’s dark comedy “Crispino e la Comare” — will be performed, July 15-16 at Kasser Theater at Montclair State University and July 19-20 at the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York.