James Morris
Actor
- Born
- January 10, 1947 (age 79) · 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.
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Known for
Die Walküre
April 8, 1989
Das Rheingold
April 23, 1990
Siegfried
February 23, 1990
Otello
October 1, 1995
Verdi: Macbeth
June 19, 1987
The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
March 16, 1978
Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg
December 8, 2001
Anna Bolena
January 1, 1984
The Metropolitan Opera: Turandot
October 12, 2019
Simon Boccanegra [The Metropolitan Opera]
February 22, 2011
Puccini: La bohème
January 1, 1982
The Metropolitan Opera: Otello
October 27, 2012
Acting21
- 2019The Metropolitan Opera: Turandot as Timur
- 2012The Metropolitan Opera: Otello as Lodovico
- 2011Simon Boccanegra [The Metropolitan Opera] as Jacopo Fiesto
- 2010The Metropolitan Opera: Hamlet as Claudius
- 2001Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg
- 1997Billy Budd as Claggart
- 1996Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary as Self
- 1995Otello as Jago
- 1990Das Rheingold as Wotan
- 1990Siegfried