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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...