Leon Lishner, a bass-baritone who was a mainstay of the New York City Opera and NBC Opera rosters during the early 1950s, has died at his home in Seattle. He was 82.
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Lishner was born in New York City on July 4, 1913, and studied music at City College and at the Juilliard School. He sang in the premieres of several of Gian Carlo Menotti's operas, including performing Balthazar in the first performance - a live national broadcast by the NBC Opera - of "Amahl and the Night Visitors."