Valerian Ruminski

Valerian Ruminski (b. 1967, Buffalo, NY) is an American bass singer.

He 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 New York City .He can be heard on the Naxos Records release of 'A Night at the Opera' with other young singers who have debuted at the Metropolitan Opera as well as the Deutsche Grammaphone release of 'I Puritani' with Anna Netrebko and John Realya.

Valerian

B

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" Superintendent Budd, "The Rape of Lucretia" Collatinus

D

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

F

Carlisle Floyd: "Cold Sassy Tree" Rucker, "Susannah" Blitch

G

Gilbert and Sullivan: "Pirates of Penzance" Major General
Umberto Giordano: "Andrea Chenier" Roucher & Mathieu
Charles Gounod: "Roméo et Juliette" Frère Laurent, "Faust" Mefistofeles

H

Fromental Halévy: "La Juive" Albert & Brogni
George Frideric Handel: "Ariodante" Il Re di Scozio, "Rinaldo" Argante, "Semele" Somnus, "Acis & Galatea" Polifemus, "Giulio Cesare" Julius Caesar
Jake Heggie: "Dead Man Walking" Father Grenville & Warden Benton

K

Emmerich Kálmán: "Countess Maritza" Prince Popolescu
Jerome Kern: "Have a Heart" The Turk

L

Franz Lehár: "The Merry Widow" Baron Mirko Zeta

M

Jules Massenet: "Manon" Des Grieux
Gian-Carlo Menotti: "The Old Maid and the Thief" Bob
Giacomo Meyerbeer: "Les Huguenots" Marcel
Stanisław Moniuszko: "Verbum Nobile" Bartomiej, "Halka" Janusz, "The Haunted Mansion" Skoluba
Claudio Monteverdi: "L'Incoronazione di Poppea" Seneca
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "The Impresario" Bluff, "Don Giovanni" Commendatore/Masetto/Leporello, "Cosi fan Tutte" Don Alfonso, "Le Nozze di Figaro" Figaro, "Die Zauberflote" Sarastro, "Entfuhrung aus dem Serail" Osmin

O

Jacques Offenbach: "Les Contes d'Hoffman" Villains

P

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

R

Rodgers and Hammerstein: "South Pacific" Emile de Becque, "The King and I" King
Gioacchino Rossini: "Semiramide" Assur, "Barber of Seville" Don Basilio, "Ermione" Fenicio, "La Gazza Ladra" Fernando, "Gessler" Guglielmo Tell, "Il viaggio a Reims" Lord Sydney

Bedřich Smetana: "The Bartered Bride" Kezal
Johann Strauss II: "Die Fledermaus" Frank
Richard Strauss: "Salome" 1st Soldier
Igor Stravinsky: "Rake's Progress" Nick Shadow

T

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: "Eugene Onegin" Gremin, "Iolanta" King, "Queen of Spades" Surin
Ambroise Thomas: "Hamlet" Claudius, "Mignon" Lothario

V

Giuseppe 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

W

Richard Wagner: "The Flying Dutchman" Daland, "Parsifal" Gurnemanz, "Tannhauser" Landgrave, "Lonhengrin" The King, "Tristan und Isolde" Mark
Kurt Weill: "Street Scene" Frank Maurrant

Links

[http://www.valerianruminski.com/index.html Valerian Ruminski Official Website]
[http://www.micartists.com/ Sally Corbeil-MIC Artists Managament]