16 Facts About Samuel Ramey

Samuel Ramey was born on March 28,1942 and is an American operatic bass.

Samuel Ramey studied music in high school and in college at Kansas State University, as well as at Wichita State with Arthur Newman.

Samuel Ramey was in the chorus of Don Giovanni in 1963, with Norman Treigle in the title role, while studying with the Central City Opera in Central City, Colorado.

Samuel Ramey took over that role as well as the Faustian devils in Gounod's Faust and Boito's Mefistofele, which was vacated by the early death of Treigle.

In January 1984, Samuel Ramey made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in Handel's Rinaldo.

Samuel Ramey became a fixture at the Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, Vienna State Opera, the Paris Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the New York City Opera, the San Francisco Opera and the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires since then.

Samuel Ramey has sung in Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro and, in the bel canto repertoire, in Rossini's Semiramide, The Barber of Seville, Il Turco in Italia, L'italiana in Algeri, and La Gazza Ladra; in Donizetti's Anna Bolena and Lucia di Lammermoor and Bellini's I puritani.

Samuel Ramey provided the voice for The Beast, the main antagonist of the 2014 animated miniseries Over the Garden Wall.

Samuel Ramey continued to tour with the program throughout the world.

Samuel Ramey formerly served as a member of the faculty at Roosevelt University's Chicago College of Performing Arts and is currently a distinguished professor of Opera at Wichita State University's School of Music.

Samuel Ramey was named an inaugural member of the WSU College of Fine Arts Hall of Fame in 2015.

Samuel Ramey is a national patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity.

Samuel Ramey reprised the title role of "Duke Bluebeard" in Opera Omaha's production of Bela Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle in April 2013 in Omaha, Nebraska.

Samuel Ramey has made an exceptionally high number of recordings documenting many of his main operatic roles as well as collections of miscellaneous arias, other classical pieces, and crossover discs of popular American music.

Samuel Ramey has appeared on television and video productions of the Met's productions of Carmen and Bluebeard's Castle, San Francisco's production of Mefistofele, Glyndebourne's production of The Rake's Progress, and Salzburg's production of Don Giovanni.

Samuel Ramey married his third wife, soprano Lindsey Larsen, on June 29,2002.