James Morris
Known for ActingBorn 1947-01-10Baltimore, Maryland, USA
James Peppler Morris (born 10 January 1947) is a leading American bass-baritone opera singer.
He is known for his interpretation of the role of Wotan in Richard Wagner's operatic cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen. The Metropolitan Opera video recording of the complete cycle with Morris as Wotan has been described as an "exceptional issue on every count." It was broadcast on PBS in 1990, to the largest viewing audience of the Ring Cycle in human history.
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Known for
Maria Stuarda
1988 · as William Cecil (singing voice)
Luisa Miller: Metropolitan Opera
1979 · as Wurm
The Metropolitan Opera: Hamlet
2010 · as Claudius
Otello - The Met
1978 · as Lodovico
Verdi: Macbeth
1987 · as Banquo
Die Walküre
1990 · as Wotan
Siegfried
1990 · as Wanderer
The Metropolitan Opera: Turandot
2019 · as Timur
Macbeth
1972 · as Banquo
Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary
1996 · as Self
Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg
2001
The Metropolitan Opera: Otello
2012 · as Lodovico
Les Contes d'Hoffmann
1988 · as Lindorf / Coppélius / Dapertutto / Dr. Miracle
Puccini: La bohème
1982 · as Colline
Billy Budd
1997 · as Claggart
Das Rheingold
1990 · as Wotan
Otello
1995 · as Jago
The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
1978 · as Don Giovanni