Valerian Ruminski

Valerian Ruminski (b. 1967, Buffalo, NY) attended SUNY Buffalo and the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia PA. He apprenticed with the Santa Fe and Chautauqua Operas and has performed with the NYC Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Kansas City Lyric Opera, Dallas Opera, Opera de Montreal, New Israeli Opera (Tel Aviv), Opera Pacific, Michigan Opera Theatre, Atlanta Opera, Syracuse Opera, Opera de Monte Carlo, Festival Lyrique de Belle Ile en Mer and the El Paso Opera. His roles have included Ferrando/Trovatore, Sparafucile/Rigoletto, Sarastro/Flute, Betto/Schicchi,. Inspector Budd/Albert Herring, Lt. Ratcliffe/Billy Budd, Figaro/La Nozze, Fenicio/Ermione and Frank/Fledermaus.

Mr. Ruminski is a recipient of a Richard Tucker Career Grant, a Lincoln Center Martin Segal Award, a William Mattheus Sullivan Foundation Grant,a 2004 Gerda Lissner Foundation Grant, a Liederkranz Prize, 1st Prize in the MacAllister Singing Competition, 1st Prize in the NJ Verismo Competition, 1st Prize in the Marcella Sembrich Competition in NYC, 1st Prize in the DiPanni Bel Canto Comoetition in Rhode Island, 1st Prize in the NYSTA Coloratura Competition in NYC, 2nd Prize in the Altamura/Caruso Competition in Imola, Italy and 2nd Prize in the Loren Zachary Competition in LA. He has also been recognized as the Outstanding Polish Citizen of Music by the Am-Pol Eagle News Paper in Buffalo NY.

Among his concert appearances include a Messiah with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, a Verdi Requiem for the Verdi Festival in Forli Italy, Song of the Forest for the Bard School Festival of Shostakovich, Carmen in concert with the Buffalo Philharmonic, Haydn's Creation at St. Joseph University in Philadelphia and the Richard Tucker Gala on PBS in 1999 and 2000.

Mr. Ruminski resides in Buffalo NY and studies voice with Nikita Storojev at the University of Texas at Austin. He can be heard on the Naxos label release of 'A Night at the Opera' with other young singers who have debuted at the Metropolitan Opera.

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Joseph Baber: Rumplestiltskin title role
Béla Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle Bluebeard
Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio Don Fernando / Rocco
Vincenzo Bellini: I Puritani Lord Gualtiero Walton
Hector Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini Balducci
Georges Bizet: Carmen Zuniga
Marc Blitzstein: Regina Horace
William Bolcom: A View from a Bridge Marco
Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd Mr. Ratcliffe & John Claggart, Albert Herring Superintendant Budd, The Rape of Lucretia Collatinus

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Claude Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande Arkel
Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lamermoor Raimondo

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FLOYD: "Cold Sassy Tree" Rucker
, "Susannah" Blitch

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GILBERT & SULLIVAN: "Pirates of Penzance" Major General
GIORDANO: "Andrea Chenier" Roucher & Mathieu
GOUNOD: "Roméo et Juliette" Frère Laurent, "Faust" Mefistofeles

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HALEVY: "La Juive" Albert & Brogni
HANDEL: "Ariodante" Il Re di Scozio, "Rinaldo" Argante, "Semele" Somnus, "Acis & Galatea" Polifemus, "Julius Caesar" Julius Caesar
HEGGIE: "Dead Man Walking" Father Grenville & Warden Benton

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KALMAN: "Countess Maritza" Prince Popolescu
KERN: "Have a Heart" The Turk

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LEHAR: "The Merry Widow" Baron Mirko Zeta

==M-- MASSENET: "Manon" Des Grieux
MENOTTI: "Old Maid and the Thief" Bob
MEYERBEER: "Les Huguenots" Marcel
MONIUSZKO: "Verbum Nobile" Bartomiej, "Halka" Janusz, "The Haunted Mansion" Skoluba
MONTEVERDI: "L'Incoronazione di Poppea" Seneca MOZART: "The Impressario" Bluff, "Don Giovanni" Commendatore/Masetto/Leporello, "Cosi fan Tutte" Don Alfonso, "Le Nozze di Figaro" Figaro, "Die Zauberflote" Sarastro, "Entfuhrung aus dem Serail" Osmin

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OFFENBACH: "Les Contes d'Hoffman" Villains

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PROKOFIEV: "War and Peace" Kutuzov
PUCCINI: "Gianni Schicchi" Betto/Doctor/Lawyer, "Madama Butterfly" Bonze, "La Bohème" Colline, "La Fanciulla del West" Jake Wallace, "Tosca" Sciarrone, "Turandot" Timur

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ROGERS & HAMMERSTEIN: "South Pacific" Emile de Becque, "The King and I" King
ROSSINI: "Semiramide" Assur, "Barber of Seville" Don Basilio, "Ermione" Fenicio, "La Gazza Ladra" Fernando, "Gessler" Guglielmo Tell, "Il Viaggio a Reims" Lord Sydney

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SMETANA: "Bartered Bride" Kezal
STRAUSS, J.: "Die Fledermaus" Frank
STRAUSS, R.: "Salome" 1st Soldier
STRAVINSKY: "Rake's Progress" Nick Shadow

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TCHAIKOVSKY: "Eugene Onegin" Gremin, "Iolanta" King, "Queen of Spades" Surin
THOMAS: "Hamlet" Claudius, "Mignon" Lothario

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VERDI: "Macbeth" Banquo, "Un Ballo in Maschera" Count Horn, "La Traviata" Dr. Grenville, "Il Trovatore" Ferrando, "Simon Boccanegra" Fiesco, "Rigoletto" Sparafucile & Monterone, "Otello" Lodovico, "Aida" The King & Ramphis

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WAGNER: "The Flying Dutchman" Daland, "Parsifal" Gurnemanz, "Tannhauser" Landgrave, "Lonhengrin" The King, "Tristan und Isolde" Mark
WEILL: "Street Scene" Frank Maurrant

Links

Valerian Ruminski Official Website
Sally Corbeil-MIC Artists Managament