Jason C. Tramm to Conduct Palmetto Opera's 'Great Voices from Broadway to Opera' in Columbia, SC

Great stories give voice to great music - and the musical connection between Broadway and Opera has long fascinated and entertained audiences. In 1900 the theatrical success of David Belasco's play "Madame Butterfly: A Tragedy of Japan" led to Giacomo Puccini's 1904 grand opera "Madama Butterfly," which re-emerged in 1988 as David Henry Hwang's Broadway hit and Tony Award winning play "M. Butterfly. " When Jonathan Larson's musical "Rent" opened in 1996 to rave reviews, audiences and critics loved the homage to Puccini's "La Boehme."

Capitalizing on this grand tradition, The Palmetto Opera in collaboration with Artistic Director, Giorgio Lalov of Teatro Lirico d'Europa, presents "Great Voices from Broadway to Opera" Saturday May 14th at the W. W. Hootie Johnson Performance Hall in Columbia, South Carolina.

Jason C. Tramm guest conducts an international cast of soloists and the musicians of the South Carolina Philharmonic in a concert of show stopping arias and Broadway tunes. Tenor Jonathan Crowley, soprano Janet Hopkins, tenor Fabian robles and soprano Melliangie Perez will sing beloved Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Gaetano Donizetti, Jules Massenet, Pietro Mascagni, Vincenzo Bellini as well as 20th century masterpieces of musical theatre by Broadway composers Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein, Mitch Leigh and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

While Tramm's first love is opera his work in the symphonic, operatic, and choral repertoire has received acclaim nationally and internationally. Noted productions include a world premiere of the Gershwin's Porgy and Bess in Tirana, Albania at the request of the US Embassy. As Artistic Director for the NJ State Opera Tramm conducted the 75th anniversary production of the Gershwin's Porgy and Bess at Newark Symphony Hall and conducted the HDTV broadcast presentation with PBS affiliate NJN, of "Verdi Requiem: Live from Ocean Grove" which garnered a regional Emmy Award nomination. Tramm currently serves as Director of Music Ministries, Ocean Grove CMA, conducting sacred and secular works. His concerts from the historic Great Auditorium in Ocean Grove, New Jersey include national broadcasts of Léon Boëllmann's Fantasie-Dialogue for Organ and Orchestra, Op. 35 with famed organist Gordon Turk and the Rittenhouse Orchestra, and Alexandre Guilmant's Symphony Number 1 in d for Organ and Orchestra featured on American Public Media's "Pipe Dreams." Tramm conducted the MidAtlantic Opera's 2014 productions of Verdi's Rigoletto and the Verdi Bicentennial production "Verdiana. A member of the faculty at Seton Hall University (Assistant Professor and Director of Choral Activities, College of Communication and the Arts) Tramm leads the University Choir, Chamber Choir and Orchestra. In 2015 Tramm made his Carnegie Hall debut conducting "A Prayer for Peace" which featured Behzad Ranjbaran's Elegy for Cello and Strings, Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem and Adnan Saygun's Selections from Yunis Emre. On June 9th of this year Tramm will lead the Adelphi Orchestra at Merkin Concert Hall in NYC in a program featuring MENDELSSOHN's Overture to the Hebrides, TCHAIKOVSKY Concerto for Violin in D major and BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5 in C minor.

The Palmetto Opera began in 2001 with a vision of bringing professional opera to the Midlands and South Carolina, to further opera's multi-faceted role as a force in entertainment and the arts, education, and its impact on economic development in the community and state. Opera Palmetto's debut came in 2003, with a concert performance of "Love, Murder & Revenge," featuring scenes from famous operas. In 2007 a sold out performances of "The Marriage of Figaro" firmly established The Palmetto Opera as a regional producer of grand opera. Recent productions include the company's successful mounting of Verdi's Rigoletto in collaboration with Teatro Lirco d'Europa in February 2016.

"Great Voices from Broadway to Opera"

Saturday, May 14, 2016 at 7:00 PM

W. W. Hootie Johnson Performance Hall - USC Darla Moore School of Business 1014 Greene Street, Columbia, SC 29208

General Admission $55 (Ticket entitles bearer to the concert and post-performance gala party)

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/great-voices-from-broadway-to-opera-concert-and-gala-tickets-23441005679

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