- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- March 28, 1942
- Place of Birth
- Colby, Kansas, USA
Samuel Ramey
Samuel Ramey (born March 28, 1942) 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 which enabled him to sing the music of Handel, Mozart and Rossini but with enough vocal power to handle the more overtly dramatic roles in Verdi, Puccini, and Meyerbeer operas. 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. At Kansas State, he was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. 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. After being an apprentice with the Santa Fe Opera in Santa Fe, New Mexico, he worked for an academic p…
Filmography
movieTurandot - Wichita Grand Opera
2015
tvOver the Garden Wall
2014 · The Beast (voice)
moviePuccini: Turandot
2009 · Timur
movieThe Metropolitan Opera: Puccini's La Rondine
2009 · Rambaldo
movieNatalie Dessay & Rolando Villazón - Massenet: Manon
2007 · Comte des Grieux
movieNabucco
2001 · Zaccaria
movieDon Quichotte
2000 · Don Quichotte
movieLes contes d'Hoffmann - Teatro alla Scalla
1996 · Lindorf/Coppélius/Miracle/Dapertutto
movieMetropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary
1996 · Self
movieFaust
1995 · Méphistophélès
movieOn the Town
1993 · Pitkin
movieI Lombardi - The Met
1993 · Pagano
movieDon Carlo
1992 · Filippo II
movieStravinsky: The Rake’s Progress
1992 · Nick Shadow
movieAttila
1991 · Attila
movieSemiramide
1990 · Assur
Don Giovanni
movieDon Giovanni
1990 · Don Giovanni
movieBluebeard’s Castle / Erwartung (The Met)
1989 · Bluebeard
movieMefistofele
1989 · Mefistofele
movieCarmen
1988 · Escamillo
tvLe monde est à vous
1987 · Self
movieDon Giovanni
1987 · Don Giovanni
movieMacbeth
1987 · Banco (voice)
movieVerdi Macbeth Chailly
1987 · Banquo
movieRobert le Diable
1985 · Bertram
movieAmadeus
1984 · Figaro in 'The Marriage of Figaro' (singing voice)
movieIl viaggio a Reims
1984 · Lord Sidney
movieNew York City Opera: The Barber of Seville
1976 · Basilio
tvLe Grand Échiquier
1972 · Self
tvGreat Performances
1971 · Mefistofele