NEW YORK — The best that can be said for some recent Metropolitan Opera productions — “Samson et Dalila” and “Tosca,” I’m looking at you — is that they don’t actively hinder the works being performed.

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 ...

On his new aria recital, Samuel Ramey proves why he continues to be one of the operatic basses in greatest demand in theaters around the world, after 30 years on the lyric stage. Singing arias from ...

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 ...

Samuel Ramey is a solitary operatic bass: a devil who can be menacing and sexy, a don who can be authoritative and dashing, a downstairs denizen who can be as nimble in body as in voice. That is an ...

Composers seem to equate villainy with the bass voice. All the better for Samuel Ramey, whose resonant low tones have thrilled opera audiences... Samuel Ramey: Bad-Guy Bass Of Opera Samuel Ramey: ...