Actor
James Morris
January 10, 1947 · Baltimore, 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.
Often works with
James Levine
7 titles together
Die Walküre, Das Rheingold, Siegfried
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MET Orchestra
7 titles together
Die Walküre, Das Rheingold, Siegfried
Plácido Domingo
3 titles together
Otello, Simon Boccanegra [The Metropolitan Opera], Luisa Miller: Metropolitan Opera
Renée Fleming
3 titles together
Otello, The Metropolitan Opera: Otello, The Metropolitan Opera: Hamlet
Renata Scotto
3 titles together
Puccini: La bohème, Luisa Miller: Metropolitan Opera, Otello - The Met
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Joan Sutherland
3 titles together
The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni, Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda
Full filmography · 19
The Metropolitan Opera: Turandot
as Timur
2019
The Metropolitan Opera: Otello
as Lodovico
2012
Simon Boccanegra [The Metropolitan Opera]
as Jacopo Fiesto
2011
The Metropolitan Opera: Hamlet
as Claudius
2010
Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg
cast
2001
Billy Budd
as Claggart
1997
Otello
as Jago
1995
Das Rheingold
as Wotan
1990
Die Walküre
as Wotan
1990
Siegfried
as Wanderer
1990
Maria Stuarda
as William Cecil (singing voice)
1988
Verdi: Macbeth
as Banquo
1987