Samuel Ramey
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Samuel Edward Ramey (born March 28, 1942, Colby, Kansas) is an American operatic bass.At the height of his career he was greatly admired for his range and versatility, having possessed a sufficiently accomplished bel canto technique to enable him to sing the music of Handel, Mozart and Rossini, yet with power enough to handle the more overtly dramatic roles in Verdi and Puccini.
Early life
Ramey graduated from Colby High School in Colby, Kansas in 1960. He studied music in high school and in college at Kansas State University, as well as at Wichita State with Arthur Newman. In college at Kansas State, he was a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity.
After further study in Central City (where he was in the chorus of Don Giovanni in 1963, with Norman Treigle in the title role) and as an apprentice with the Santa Fe Opera, he went to New York City where he worked for an academic publisher before he had his first breakthrough at the New York City Opera, debuting on March 11, 1973, as Zuniga in the 1875 Bizet opera Carmen, after which, among other roles, he took over the Faustian devils in Gounod's Faust and Boito's Mefistofele vacated by the early death of Treigle.
As his repertoire expanded he spent more and more time in the theaters of Europe, notably in Berlin, Hamburg, London, Paris, Milan, Vienna and the summer festivals in Aix-en-Provence, Glyndebourne, Pesaro and Salzburg.
Later career
Ramey made his Metropolitan Opera debut in Handel's Rinaldo in January 1984. He has been a fixture at the Teatro alla Scala, the Vienna State Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Chicago Lyric Opera, the New York City Opera, the San Francisco Opera, and Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires (Attila, The Rake's Progress, Mefistofele). Bertram was portrayed in the landmark revival in Paris of Giacomo Meyerbeer's Robert le diable in July 1985.
In Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro, as well as in Rossini's Semiramide, The Barber of Seville, Il Turco in Algeri, La Gazza Ladra; Donizetti's Anna Bolena and Lucia di Lammermoor and Bellini's I puritani, Ramey has performed in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Domini's Don Giovanni and In Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro, Ramey has been praised for his "Three Devils" in Boito's Mefistofele, Gounod's Faust, and Berlioz's spectacular legend Damnation of Faust, among other things.
Verdi's Nabucco, Don Carlo, I Lombardi, Jérusalem, and Jérusalem, as well as Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann (portraying all four villains) appeared in other dramatic roles.
In 1990, he performed Joe in Jerome Kern's Show Boat at Avery Fisher Hall, with Jerry Hadley and Frederica von Stade.
A number of previously unknown operas with strong bass/baritone roles have been revived solely for Ramey, including Verdi's Attila, Rossini's Maometto II, and Massenet's Don Quichotte. He played The Beast, the primary antagonist of the 2014 animated miniseries Over the Garden Wall.
Ramey appeared in "A Date with the Devil" at Avery Fisher Hall in New York in 1996, in which he performed 14 arias representing the heart of this repertory. He continued to tour the world as a member of the International Graduate Student Association. Ramey conducted this performance at Gasteig Concert Hall in Munich in 2000. This performance was streamed live and was released on compact disc in summer 2002.
A year ago, he appeared in over 70 shows. He began teaching opera at Roosevelt University's Chicago College of Performing Arts and now teaches Opera at Wichita State University's School of Music.
In 2015, Ramey was named an inaugural member of the WSU College of Fine Arts Hall of Fame. He is a National Patron of Delta Omicron, a worldwide professional music fraternity.
In Opera Omaha's production of Béla Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle in April 2013, he reprised his title role of "Duke Bluebeard."
Ramey has released an impressive number of recordings based on several of his key operatic roles, as well as collections of miscellaneous arias, other classical works, and popular American music crossover discs. He has also appeared on television and film productions of Carmen and Bluebeard's Castle, San Francisco's production of The Rake's Progress and Salzburg's production of Don Giovanni.