Photo Flash Exclusive: Jason C. Tramm Conducts Amore Opera's LA BOHEME

Jason Tramm, Artistic Director and principal conductor of the Morristown based MidAtlantic Opera leads the Amore Opera orchestra, chorus and featured soloists in Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème, arguably the world's most beloved opera. Directed by Nathan Hull, Amore Opera's fully staged production, with original sets designed by Richard Cerullo (for lower Manhattan's famed impresario Anthony Amato) opened December 18th and runs for 8 performances through January 3rd in the intimate 275 seat Loreto Theatre at the Sheen Center for Thought and Culture in New York City. Check out an exclusive look below!

A holiday favorite often referred to as the greatest story ever sung, La Bohème is the passionate and timeless story of love among young artists set in Paris's 1840's Latin Quarter. The action of the opera opens on Christmas Eve reflecting a time, not unlike the present, where the idealistic principal characters - a poet, painter, philosopher, musician, seamstress and singer - juggle the demands of art, life and love while attempting to establish their professionally identity in an economically challenged world.

While Puccini's 1896 opera, based on the novel "Scènes de la vie de bohème" written by Henri Murger in 1851, depicts a Paris of diminished opportunities due to the upheavals of revolution and war, the struggles of the Bohemians are those clearly recognizable in any age. "Puccini's genius is his ability to interweave orchestration and aria, exquisitely illuminating the emotional reality of his characters as they express the beauty, idealism and vulnerability of youth. He continues to speak to audiences across the decades", said Tramm "From La Bohème's very first note to the last, Puccini holds you in the palm of his hand."

Photos Courtesy of Amore Opera