Jay Hunter Morris
Acting
Biography
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Known For
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Ring Cycle, pt 4. Siegfried is drugged and tricked into kidnapping his wife, since she has the Ring now. More double-crossings, Siegfried ends up dead. Brunnhilde has had enough of this, tosses the Ring into the river and torches the place.
Wagner: Siegfried
Robert Lepage’s remarkable Met Opera production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, the 2013 Grammy Award Winner for Best Opera Recording, is now available as individual DVDs. Siegfried features Bryn Terfel, Jay Hunter Morris, and Deborah Voigt, with Fabio Luisi conducting.
Moby-Dick
Grammy-winning tenor Jay Hunter Morris plays the role of Captain Ahab in Herman Melville's epic tale of a fierce, obsessive whaling-boat captain who descends into madness in this thrilling production from San Francisco Opera.
John Adams: Doctor Atomic
The European premiere of the opera by the contemporary American composer John Adams, with libretto by Peter Sellars, in a co-production of the San Francisco Opera (where the work premiered), the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and De Nederlandse Opera. The plot focuses on the great stress and anxiety experienced by those at Los Alamos while the test of the first atomic bomb (the "Trinity" test) was being prepared.
Filmography
as Siegfried
as Siegfried
as Capt. James Nolan