Justino Diaz as Colline La Boheme Metropolitan Opera Photo by Louis Melancon

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Justino Diaz as Colline La Boheme Metropolitan Opera Photo by Louis Melancon
Justino
Díaz (born January 29, 1940) is an internationally renowned bass-baritone opera singer. In 1963, Díaz won an annual contest held at the Metropolitan Opera of New York, becoming the "first" Puerto Rican to obtain such an honor and as a consequence, made his Metropolitan debut on October 1963 in Verdi's Rigoletto as Monterone.
Louis Mélançon
(1901-1974) was the in-house
photographer
for the Metropolitan Opera from 1947 to his death in 1974.