Lansing Hatfield

Lansing Hatfield (February 4, 1910 – August 22, 1954) was an American bass-baritone and radio personality who had an active performance career in operas, operettas, musicals, and concerts from mid 1930s until the late 1940s. He is best remembered for his frequent performances on American radio during the late 1930s and early 1940s, and two roles he created on Broadway: Daniel Webster in Douglas Moore's 1939 opera The Devil and Daniel Webster at the Martin Beck Theatre, and Reverend Alfred Davidson in Vernon Duke and Howard Dietz's 1944 musical Sadie Thompson at the Alvin Theatre. In 1941 he won the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air, and was a resident artist at the Met from 1941 to 1944.