Frank Guarrara as Lescaut Metropolitan Opera Photo by Louis Melancon

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Frank Guarrara as Lescaut in Massenet's Manon.
Metropolitan Opera Photo by Louis Melancon
Frank Guarrera
(December 3, 1923 – November 23, 2007)
was
an Italian-American lyric baritone who enjoyed a long and distinguished career at the Metropolitan Opera,
singing with the company for a
total of 680 performances.
He performed 35 different roles at the Met, mostly from the Italian and French repertories, from 1948 through 1976.
Louis Mélançon
(1901-1974) was the in-house
photographer
for the Metropolitan Opera from 1947 to his death in 1974.