Samuel Ramey
Samuel Ramey is the most recorded bass in history, with an extensive repertoire and more than 40 operatic roles to his name. He has established a reputation for portraying the Devil in various operas and has devised a concert programme called A Date with the Devil. His
Metropolitan Opera debut in New York was in Handel's Rinaldo, and his
European debut was at Glyndebourne in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. He talks to Joan Bakewell about his life and work, with musical excerpts from Mozart's The Marriage of Rgaro and Don Giovanni, Handel's Messiah and Rinaldo, and Bizet's Carmen, Rossini's The Barber of Seville, Gounod's Faust and songs by Copland and Gershwin. Revised repeat