The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 184, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 10, 1979 Page: 11 of 28
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Singer Ramey Is Building A Big Career
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y ARY CAMPBELL snarl from time to time, to audition,” was called back Lammermoor,” “I Due » y" T TuiKiu' , pcTcp
AP Newsfeatures Writer make the evil ***» con- that spring and the next fall Foscari,” Bach’s “B Minor r - 1 fcK
American lyric bass v"!CH]g'„ for three more auditions, Mass,” Haydn’s “Armida,”
Samuel Ramey is taking™ in “La then offerecta contract. - . Rossini’s “Otello” and
long, measured and steadv ?oherae'” he says, “has ,He didn’t get discouraged Handel’s “Ariodante.”
strides toward a big in- been.a 8°od-luck role for the three and a half years He has also recorded both
ternational career in opera .,was oiy debut role he wrote for the book Sparafbcile and Monterone
Ramey calls himself a With'the Paris Opera in publisher, Rkmef says. He in “Rigoletto” with Beverly
late bloomer. He didn’t get thought it was just a matter Sills and Sherrill Milnes for
interested in opera until Franci^° Opera last fall of time until he was Angel Records.
/ he’d ^already had one “ j*1" * nextJ,all{n •' .Heseys,^
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“Don Giovanni” in 1977, ’TOF the mn orlfri goT''
.with the Netherlands Opera involved in a community
as the four villains in “The theater group. The guy who
Tales of Hoffmann” in 1978. was the head of ft was an
■* Knowing it in French, he opera, buff. He had a
learned it in German for fabulous record collection.
'Holland and only slipped i used to go
his debut with the Hamburg terested in opera through
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and the nejtt njght sang Don to the Central City, Colo.,
Basilio in ‘ ‘The Barter Of Opera and was hired for the
Seville/’ He went back chorus. “I’d never even
“early this-year for six seen an opera until I was in
weeks. This spring he made one there,” he says. “I had
his Paris Opera debut as gone to college that one
Collinein“LaBoheme.”' year with the idea jof"
in May he’s giving his becoming a teacher of
fst-recital-in-his home...choral- music. Afterjhat
town, Colby, Kan And this summer, I decided T |
summer he’ll sing for the wanted to' be an opera
first time at the Aix £n singer. I went to Wichita
Provence Festival. ~f-State '‘University- because
“They’re doing a new they had a very good opera
production of ‘The program.”
Marriage of Figar,’ ” he The late Norman Treigle,'
cqwc “and the summer a star of the New York City
m be ill a new Opera, was Don Giovanniin
production of‘Semiramide’ the Central City Opera
with Montserrat Caballe which was the first Ramey
and Marilyn Horne which sang in as a member tirthe
they’ll take to the Paris chorus. Treigle, famous as
Opera in the fall of 1981.” a singer-actor, quickly
There are still a few became a great favorite of
operatic worlds to conquer. Ramey’s.
“Covent*Garden and the flow, at -the ,uin.
Metropolitan Opera • are City Opera, Ramey does
always places one would roles, like the villains in
*• like to sing.” ‘The Tales of Hoffmarn” ,
His voice is a lyric bass, and Mefistofele, that
Ramey says, not a deep .Treigle did there. Ramey
bass. The parts which he had to make some staging
thinks fit it best are changes in “.Mefistofele.”
Mephistophele’s in Both were thin-t>ut Treigle
Gounod’s “Faust” and the was short and climbed
title rolds in Bolto’s around on the scenery like a
“Mefisttffeie” and Mozart’sspider. Ramey, at 6 feet,
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two devils and a happy Ramey and his wife came
"fellow who gets the girl. to New York in 1969. He got
He also sings Nick a regular job writing blurbs
a Shadow, who is the devil in for inside book jackets and
Stravinskyls “The Rake’s found a vocal coach. He got
Progress.” The Glyn- experience with a small
debourne Festival opera company in Pater-
productioii in %hich he did son.N.J. 7 / .
it was taped for BBC-TV in In 1972 he entered the Met
1978. •' _______• Auditions for Young
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they are good parts; And he New York City Opera and,?
knows how to put in a vocal starting with a “cattle call
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 184, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 10, 1979, newspaper, May 10, 1979; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1074900/m1/11/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.