I think a lot of people feel that Weede, who sang only a little at the Met, was a great singer who lived in a time when there were so many great singers of his voice type that he was slightly overshadowed by them at some houses. If he were around today, he'd be a huge opera star.
Anyway, so many singers who performed at City Opera and/or the Met also appeared on Broadway. Some of them pretty famous, some less so, some in successful shows, many of them in unsuccessful shows. Many others also did tours and stock productions of musicals. Among those not yet mentioned:
john Reardon
Robert Rounseville
Brenda Lewis
Teresa Stratas
Julia Migenes (although she went into opera after Broadway and hasn't been back)
George Gaynes (sang at City Opera as George Jongeyans early in his career)
William Olvis
Todd Duncan
Cesare Siepi
Norman Atkins
Lois Hunt
Jan Peerce
Carol Brice
Muriel Smith
Jean Handzlik
Elaine Malbin
Polyna Stoska
Jerome Hines (no Broadway, but did South Pacific and Man of La Mancha in stock a lot)
Giorgio Tozzi (Most Happy Fella revival, South Pacific at Lincoln Center and other places, including with Mary Martin on the west coast, Fiddler in stock, and fired from A Doll's Life)
George S. Irving (sang at City Opera, not just in Regina)
Back in the 1950s, especially, there were a lot of people, almost all now forgotten, who moved back and forth between CIty Opera and musicals on and off Broadway and in stock and on tours.
There are also people who appeared in choruses and in small roles in musicals before becoming important opera singers, among them James McCracken, Reri Grist, Tatiana Troyanos and Patricia Brooks.
Or someone like Brian Sullivan, who was a Ravenal replacement in the 1946 Show Boat and then played Sam Kaplan in Street Scene, and then went to have a major career at the Met, even though he never became a big name and is almost forgotten now (and ended up committing suicide when his career went downhill).
A tenor named George Meader, now almost forgotten, sang a lot at the Met, then did a Broadway musical, then became a Broadway actor, then became a Hollywood character actor.
Going back further, you had someone like Emma Trentini and . . . I can't think of any others right now, but there were others.
There are just so many people I couldn't begin to list them all.
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