OPERA EXPOSED at Revolution Stage Company

Metropolitan Opera singer, Valerian Ruminski, exposes the life of an opera singer in OPERA EXPOSED or ‘How I Lost My Mind and Became an Opera Singer’. An evening of song and untold stories from Valerian’s 30+ years of performing in opera houses around the world as he takes you backstage dispelling the popular sentiment of the stiff upper lip of the opera genre. From a boy soprano to high school choir to breaking into the opera world, Valerian reveals his most embarrassing moments and exposes the sordid stories on and off the stage with a behind the scenes look at the unexpected reality of what opera is really all about.

Valerian takes the audience on his musical journey starting with his favorite childhood songs as well as seldom heard music he learned at the Academy of Vocal Arts (the scholarship only AVA) from early baroque and Handel through Mozart and the classical age into Bel Canto arias with the melodies of Puccini, Verdi and Donizetti. He also reveals the beginning of his love for Broadway with Rodgers and Hammerstein and the jazz creations of Cole Porter and Gershwin. With special guests including Michelle Fiore of Coachella Valley Classical Voices and Palm Springs personality Joey English. Musical accompaniment on the piano by Coachella Valley favorite Joel Baker.