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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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.

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 ...

The Property: When the international opera star Samuel Ramey and his wife, Lindsey Larsen, put their four-bedroom, six-bath house in Glenview on the market in October, Ramey says, “we hoped it would ...