the Grand Inquisiteur in Don Carlos (with Marilyn Horne as Princess Eboli), Iago in Otello (with James McCracken in the title role and Pilar Lorengar as Desdemona), Jack Rance in La fanciulla del West (with Marie Collier as Minnie), John Proctor to the Elizabeth Proctor of Frances Bible, Krushina in The Bartered Bride (with Mary Costa as Marenka), Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde (with Irene Dalis as Isolde), the Music Master in Ariadne auf Naxos (with Reri Grist as Zerbinetta and Jess Thomas as Bacchus), Rodrigo in Lulu (with Evelyn Lear in the title role), Scarpia (with Giulia Barrera as Tosca and Enrico di Giuseppe as Mario Cavaradossi), Sharpless in Madama Butterfly (with Teresa Stratas as Cio-Cio-San), Valentine in Faust (with Richard Verreau in the title role and Arnold Voketaitis as Mephistophélès), Von Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier (with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Leonie Rysanek as the Marschallin) and the title roles in Boris Godunov (with Richard Cassilly as Grigori and Ramón Vinay as Varlaam), Macbeth (with Grace Bumbry as Lady Macbeth), and Rigoletto (with Doris Yarick as Gilda). In 1982, Ludgin appeared at Carnegie Hall, in a concert version of Tchaikovsky's Iolanta, with Galina Vishnevskaya and Nicolai Gedda. In 1983, the singing-actor capped his career with the last of his twelve world premieres, as Old Sam in Leonard Bernstein's A Quiet Place (1983). The production was seen in Houston, Milan (Teatro alla Scala), Washington DC and Vienna, where the composer conducted his work (and when it was televised). At the age of seventy-eight, the beloved baritone succumbed to cancer, in New York City. Selected discography Weisgall: The Tenor (Cassilly; Grossman, 1958) CRI Menotti: The Consul (Neway; Torkanowsky, 1960) VAI Ward: The Crucible (Brooks, Bible, Macurdy; Buckley, 1962) CRI Ponchielli: La Gioconda: Final Scene (Farrell; Guadagno, 1967) [live] VAI Bernstein: A Quiet Place (Uppman; Bernstein, 1986) [live] Deutsche Grammophon Videography Menotti: The Consul (Neway; Torkanowsky, Dalrymple, 1960) VAI References "Obituaries," Opera News, November 2003. External links (1960). American operatic baritones 1925 births 2003 deaths Deaths from cancer in New York (state) Musicians from Brooklyn Singers from New York City 20th-century American male opera singers Classical musicians from New York (state)