Speak of the devil, and Samuel Ramey appears. For a quarter of a century, the great American bass has been thrilling San Francisco audiences with his diabolical vocal artistry, embodying a wide range ...

With a resonant bass voice and a muscular physique, Samuel Ramey was one of the greatest stars of the international opera circuit in his prime. He specialized in wicked characters: Don Giovanni, Faust ...

Samuel Ramey scares people. Gifted with an ominously rumbling bass voice and famed in opera houses around the world for his prince-of-darkness portrayals -- Mephistopheles in Gounod's "Faust," the ...

KALAMAZOO — Opera star Samuel Ramey can sing like the devil on stage. After watching clips of Ramey, horns sprouting from his head and singing with a charismatic power in the lead Satanic role in ...

Basso Samuel Ramey and and Tenor William Burden talk with Dean Dalton about the current HGO production of Gounod’s Faust, Levi Hammer and Hyojin Ahn perform excerpts from the Right of Spring on the ...

It says something about the abysmal state of French vocal style in today`s opera world that not one of the singers in Lyric Opera`s revival of ”Faust” happens to be French. As it turns out, the Lyric ...

With an expensive golden anniversary season coming up next year, Lyric Opera is keeping a firm lid on expenses, which means pulling back on just about everything that smacks of financial risk this ...

roles because they’re so much fun to play. He’s definitely got the low, bass-baritone voice. He’s got the intense, dark eyes and most importantly, he understands that even Ramey started out singing in ...