Nickel City Opera is back in full force with Gioachino Rossini’s comic opera ‘The Barber of Seville’ with full orchestra, costumes and sets returning for the second year to Nichols Flickinger Performing Arts Center, 1250 Amherst Street in Buffalo, NY, Saturday, June 24th, 2023 at 7pm and gracing the stage of the newly renovated Hollywood Theater, 39 West Main Street Gowanda, NY, Sunday, June 25th, 2023 at 5pm. After many years, the 14th Annual NCO Fundraising Gala is returning to Ilio DiPaolo’s 3785 South Park Ave, Blasdell, NY June 12, 2023 hosted by Nickel City Opera Founder and Artistic Director, Valerian Ruminski with special guests.
Valerian looks forward to a busy Season..“The hilarious comedy by Rossini, The Barber of Seville, will be our production both in Buffalo at the Nichols Flickinger Center for the Performing Arts and The Hollywood Theatre on W. Main St in Gowanda, NY. This ornate, refurbished, historic grand old theatre will be humming with opera in June and will be a new destination for Nickel City Opera to service theatre-goers in East Aurora, Hamburg, Orchard Park, Chautauqua, Angola, Silver Creek and other Southtowns. Bringing opera to the entire region of Western New York is part of our mission and we’re looking forward to a long term partnership.”
The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution is an opera buffa in two acts composed by Gioachino Rossini with an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais‘s French comedy The Barber of Seville (1775). Rossini’s The Barber of Seville has proven to be one of the greatest masterpieces of comedy within music and has been described as the opera buffa of all “opera buffa”. After two hundred years, it remains a popular work.
Nickel City Opera, Inc. was founded in 2003 by Valerian Ruminski and has produced over 20 operas including the world premiere of SHOT! by Persis Vehar in 2016 at Shea’s Buffalo Theatre. Other productions include La Boheme, The Barber of Seville, Tosca, Don Pasquale, The Marriage of Figaro and Il Tabarro staged on the USS The Sullivans at the Buffalo Erie County Naval & Military Park. NCO’s mission is to bring high quality opera and events to WNY and is launching an Expansion Project to further the arts in WNY and beyond.
Monday, June 12th, 2023
14th Annual Nickel City Opera Fundraising Gala
Ilio DiPaolo’s Restaurant & Banquet Facility
3785 South Park Avenue
Blasdell, NY
6:00 pm Cocktails/Hors’ d’oeuvres
7:00pm Dinner & Entertainment
$70
TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/
Enjoy opera singing, raffles, auctions, door prizes and a delicious meal at the 14th Annual Nickel City Opera Gala Dinner. Hosted by Valerian Ruminski with singing guests and pianist. This event will support our production of THE BARBER OF SEVILLE on June 23rd in Gowanda NY at the Hollywood Theater and June 25th at Nichols Flickinger Performing Arts Center in Buffalo.
Saturday, June 24th, 2023
Gioachino Rossini’s ‘BARBER OF SEVILLE’’
Nichols Flickinger Performing Arts Center
1250 Amherst Street
Buffalo, NY
7:00pm
$45
TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/
Don’t miss the special, one day only, performance of THE BARBER OF SEVILLE by Rossini. It’s a hoot. It’s a blast! Laughs galore! Side splittin’, knee slappin’ funny! You won’t need a whoopie cushion to get you started! Ha ha ha! Starring Metropolitan Opera basso Valerian Ruminski as the old windbag Bartolo who gets his comeuppance! Features a full set, orchestra, chorus and props. Directed by Giorgio Lalov and Steve Vaughan. Produced by Nickel City Opera-Valerian Ruminski and Eileen Breen.
Sunday, June 25th, 2023
Gioachino Rossini’s ‘BARBER OF SEVILLE’
Hollywood Theater
39 W Main Street
Gowanda, NY 14070
5:00pm
$29
TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/
Nickel City Opera comes to the lovely 660 seat Hollywood Theater in Gowanda NY for a night of fun and gorgeous music by Rossini with THE BARBER OF SEVILLE. A fully produced comic opera with theatrical sets, a full orchestra, chorus, costumes and supertitles giving you every word in English. A lot of the show is sung in English too! It’s a game of cat and mouse for old Bartolo and Figaro who tries to stop him from marrying a woman who is much too young for him! Starring Valerian Ruminski as Bartolo, Carla Portillo as Rosina. Conducted by Jason Tramm. Directed by Giorgio Lalov and Steve Vaughan. Produced by Nickel City Opera-Valerian Ruminski and Eileen Breen.
