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Paul Plishka as the Grand Inquisitor (L), and Sergei Larin as Don Carlo, perform in the opera "Don Carlo" by Giuseppe Verdi during a rehearsal at the Salzburg Festival’s Grosses Festpielhaus in Salzburg, Austria, on Aug. 4, 1998. Ronald Zak/AP Photo
Paul Plishka, a powerful bass with a ready smile and hearty laugh who sang 1,672 performances at the Metropolitan Opera over 51 years, has died. He was 83.
Plishka died Monday at a hospice in Wilmington, North Carolina, his wife, Sharon Thomas, said Wednesday.
