Opera star and Wichita State graduate Samuel Ramey works with WSU student Andrew Simpson in 2012. Courtesy of Wichita State University Samuel Ramey and Alan Held, international opera stars who have ...

World-renowned opera star Samuel Ramey is helping future opera singers at Wichita State University perfect their talents. On Friday evening, he will show off his students’ work and sing in two numbers ...

Even the most versatile of opera singers would be hard-pressed to boast as extensive a recorded repertoire as that of Kansas-native Samuel Ramey. Whether it’s the role Bluebeard in composer Béla ...

The principle cast of the New Orleans Opera Association's production of 'The Barber of Seville' (Photo by Tom Grosscup) Samuel Ramey's big bass voice has taken him a long way from Colby, Kan. In a ...

Bass baritone opera star Samuel Ramey has made a career out of playing demonic characters on stage. But he tells Scott Simon that in his early years he listened to the likes of Elvis Presley and Pat ...

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 ...

“Boris Godunov,” being both a Russian opera and a great Russian national opera, gives most of the weightier matter to the deepest of voices, yet bass-baritone Samuel Ramey, titular star of S.F.

, one of the biggest, well-known voices in the opera world will perform and share his knowledge at Western Michigan University next month. For more than three decades Ramey has been considered one of ...

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 ...

Opera is an art-form, first and foremost - but it also has an athletic side to it. And like any other kind of athletic activity, wear and tear and the aging process take their toll. Sometimes this can ...

Samuel Ramey takes the stage tonight for the final performance of an emotionally dissonant double bill at the Washington National Opera. First comes Bartok's bloody Duke Bluebeard's Castle, then ...