Nickel City Opera (nickelcityopera.org) is proud to present Season 18 with a night of a thousand candles at A Candle Opera Concert, Saturday, June 13th, 7:00pm at Canterbury Woods Performing Arts Center, 705 Renaissance Drive, Buffalo, NY. Hosted by Founder and Artistic Director, Valerian Ruminski, he will be joined by NCO alumni Tenor Eric Fennell with NYC Soprano Kristin Sampson, LA Soprano Shirley (XiaoLing) Wang with a full orchestra conducted by Maestro Jason Tramm.

In a rare fusion of scale and intimacy, A Candle Opera Concert will feature a 15 piece orchestra and international opera soloists, all set within a sea of over a thousand flickering candles. As candlelight concerts have grown in popularity worldwide with many featuring smaller string quartets, this production elevates the experience to new heights. Under the baton of Maestro Jason Tramm, the Canterbury Woods Performing Arts Center provides a cinematic backdrop journeying through opera’s most beloved moments, including Puccini’s Nessun Dorma from TURANDOT, Una Furtiva Lagrima from THE ELIXIR OF LOVE, The Consecration Scene from AIDA and Symphonic interludes by Mascagni and Rossini.

Opened in August 2023, the new Canterbury Woods Performing Arts Center, a $7M, 13,500 sq ft, 250 seat state-of-the-art, energy efficient venue for the arts has become a cultural hot spot. With raised stage, sloping floors, fan shaped seating with no straight walls or conventional corners, the theatre will be transformed by the warm glow of flameless LED candles, chosen to preserve the architectural integrity of the site while creating a visual ocean of light.