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Frank Guarrera was an invaluable fixture--a canny singing-actor, an esteemed team player and a pillar of reliability--at the Metropolitan Opera during the golden age of baritones. He held his own for twenty-eight seasons, starting in 1948, when he was only twenty-five, mustering thirty-five assignments in 676 performances. His ego wasn't grand enough to preclude understudy duties or student matinees, but certain roles virtually belonged to Guarrera. He puffed a rakish cigar and flourished Escamillo's cape in eighty-four Carmens and was the most sympathetic of Marcellos in seventy-one Bohemes. He died as Valentin in fifty-three Fausts, pranced as Ping in forty-nine ...