The Metropolitan Opera video recording of the complete cycle with Morris as Wotan has been described as an "exceptional issue on every count.
James Morris was born in Baltimore, Maryland, where he studied voice with Rosa Ponselle[2] and at the Peabody Conservatory.
He made his debut with the Baltimore Opera in 1967, as "Crespel" in Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, which starred Beverly Sills and Norman Treigle.
In January 2008, he reprised the role of Wotan in a production of Die Walküre at the Metropolitan Opera, the theater with which he is most closely associated.
He lives in Warren Township, New Jersey with his wife, mezzo-soprano Susan Quittmeyer, and their twins, Jennifer and Daniel.