Born: 1925, Brooklyn, NY

Died: April 30, 1995, Pittsburgh, PA

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Lee Cass, bass-baritone, studied voice with Mark Harrell at the Juilliard School of Music and earned a doctorate at the University of Pittsburgh. When NBC experimented with televised opera in the early 1950s, he was a regular in its casts. He was  a winner of the Naumburg Award in 1953.

Opera companies he sang with include: New York City Opera, the Cleveland Opera, the Civic Light Opera of Pittsburgh and the Santa Fe Opera Festival. He also appeared in Broadway productions: the original "Most Happy Fella," "Green Willow" and "All in Love."

Lee Cass taught at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Review Excerpt, The New York Times, November 12, 1953

"Lee Cass, bass-baritone, this year's winner of the Walter W. Naumburg Musical Foundation Award, made his debut at Town Hall yesterday afternoon...Mr. Cass has brains and imagination, qualities that sustain interest in a recital much longer than sheer beauty of tone. Mr. Cass' interpretation of the Mussorgsky "Songs and Dances of Death" was a tour de force, unexpected in so youthful a performer." J.B.

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