Sarah Heltzer (Princess Eboli), Annalisa Raspagliosi (Elisabeth), William Powers (King Philip), Gaston Rivero (Don Carlo) and Samuel Ramey (Grand Inquisitor) star in Wichita Grand Opera's production ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

KALAMAZOO--Metropolitan Opera star Samuel Ramey will perform with the Western Michigan University Symphony Orchestra and Collegiate Singers in a free, public concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 5, in ...

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 ...

, 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 ...

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 ...