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The bass Lawrence Davidson was a member of Metropolitan for eighteen seasons from the 1940s onwards, mainly in comprimario rôles that included Benoit in La bohème, Lamoral in Arabella and Antonio in Le nozze di Figaro. Very occasionally he appeared as Alberich in Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung, the Sacristan in Tosca, Varlaam in Boris, Beckmesser in Meistersinger and Klingsor in Parsifal. He appeared as the Keeper of the Madhouse in the first Metropolitan Opera production of Stravinskys The Rakes Progress in 1953. He was also cantor at the Temple Emanu-El in Utica, New York State.