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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

Samuel Ramey has performed in “Susannah” at the Metropolitan Opera, the San Diego Opera, New York City Opera, and Lyric Opera of Chicago. Later this week, he will once again sing in this classic ...

Opera star and Wichita State graduate and professor Samuel Ramey, left, works with WSU student Andrew Simpson in 2012. Courtesy photo Courtesy of Wichita State University Opera singer and Kansas ...

The road to opera superstardom can wind in many different directions, but the path followed by bass Samuel Ramey has been a series of especially sharp turns. On the one hand, he sang in an opera at ...

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 ...