Title
Walter Cassel as Scarpia
Subject
People
Tosca
Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924
Metropolitan Opera
Shows costumes
Cassel, Walter - Vocalist - baritone - Baron Scarpia - Has inscription
Male singers
Description
Signed: 1956
A person is shown from the waist up in a monochrome portrait, wearing 18th-century style clothing and a white curled wig. They wear a dark coat with decorative buttons over a ruffled white shirt with lace cuffs, and they hold a small glass with dark liquid. Handwritten blue ink text is visible on the left side of the portrait above the name Julie LeBlond in the bottom corner.
Creator
LeBlang, Sedge
Perry, J. Warren
Publisher
State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library
Rights
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Format
Black and White
Type
Photographic prints
Portrait photographs
Autographs
Image
Still image
Identifier
Mus. Arc. 3.1
C03_028
Coverage
New York City
USA
Collection
Citation
LeBlang, Sedge and Perry, J. Warren, “Walter Cassel as Scarpia,” Digital Collections - University at Buffalo Libraries, accessed January 10, 2026, https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/items/show/8421.
