If you attended a Seattle Opera performance anytime between now and 1968, there's a good chance you saw beloved English bass Archie Drake. In his 39 seasons at Seattle Opera, he played 109 roles, in over 1,000 performances. In fact, Drake sang in last Saturday's Macbeth. Sunday morning he sustained a massive coronary. He died Wednesday, at age 81. [Opera News, Seattle Times, Seattle P-I] Seattle Opera's Jon Dean, in Denmark for a Ring, has a touching post about Drake, too. more ›