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Paul Plishka, whose Metropolitan Opera career spanned 51 years, dies at age 83
Paul Plishka, a powerful bass with a ready smile and hearty laugh who sang 1,672 performances at the Metropolitan Opera over ...
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Catharsis in troubled times: “Tosca” at the Metropolitan Opera
A violent and crass triple stab of brass killed the gaiety. A man in black marched through the pews. As light licked his jowls, the police chief Scarpia, played by Bryn Terfel, revealed himself to the ...
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Paul Plishka, whose Metropolitan Opera career spanned 51 years, dies at age 83
He attended Eastside High School and was directed toward opera by a teacher after he performed ... In 1971, he was the Sacristan in Puccini’s “Tosca” on the night conductor James Levine ...
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Paul Plishka, whose Metropolitan Opera career spanned 51 years, dies at age 83
Paul Plishka, a powerful bass with a ready smile and hearty laugh who sang 1,672 performances at the Metropolitan Opera over 51 years ... Sacristan in Puccini’s “Tosca” on the night ...
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Paul Plishka, whose Metropolitan Opera career spanned 51 years, dies at age 83
(AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File) Paul Plishka, a powerful bass with a ready smile and hearty laugh who sang 1,672 performances at the Metropolitan Opera over ... in Puccini’s “Tosca” on the ...