Walter Cassel as Count Tomsky Metropolitan Opera Photo by Louis Melancon

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Walter Cassel As Count Tomsky in
Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades
Walter Cassel (May 15, 1910 – July 3, 2000) was
an American operatic baritone and actor.
He began his career singing on the radio during the mid-1930s and appeared in a couple of Hollywood musical films in the late 1930s. He made his first stage appearances in a handful of Broadway productions during the late 1930s and early 1940s. He began his opera career at the Metropolitan Opera in 1942, and went on to have a long and fruitful association with that house that lasted until his retirement from the stage in 1974
Louis Mélançon
(1901-1974) was the in-house
photographer
for the Metropolitan Opera from 1947 to his death in 1974.