Beautiful majestic baritone voice. Not dark but rather heroic and warm in timbre. He never pushes and his artistry is amazing. He is the greatest Wotan ever to me.
I saw this Otto Schenk production many times with different Wotans and 3 times with James Morris in the part. James Levine nails this entire 3rd act as one huge orchestral piece and whomever the principals were they had to keep up with Levine and this amazing orchestra. James Morris is the ultimate Wotan.
For me, James Morris is really the finest Wotan - the majestic voice, the legato, the phrasing. And to think that he just sang a well-received Hans Sachs only a few weeks ago, nearly 20 years after this performance!
Morris is Wotan to me. Always will be. Maybe it's because I knew him as my first Wotan from the PBS Ring production but he really is magnificent in the role. Saw him live finally as the Devil in Devil's Progress in San Francisco a decade or so ago and even then it was wonderful to hear him live. Love his rich and emotive tones. Very fine singer that doesn't get the credit he deserved.
James Morris lends his magnificent bass/baritone to one of the finest operatic monologues ever written. He is backed by the magnificent Met Orchestra under the skilled baton of the late Maestro James Levine. (Eat your heart out, Kellie Pickler!)
They really filmed this perfectly, especially the last long zoom out. Really lovely. I saw this Gala at the Met production years and years ago, and I remember this piece most of all. Nice to know my memory was true to the event.
At age 26, I believe. I was first on stage with him there in 1977 in Trovatore when he was 30 years old. He was very smart to wait to sing Wagner and then became one of the great Wagnerian singers.
So glad to see that Wotan finally got some help for his bad eye. Without proper depth perception its difficult to know exactly where you're jabbing that spear.
Robin Blankenship: I guess being an ass comes easily to you. Do you even appreciate the music and the performance, or this beneath the pea brain that rattles in your sorry excuse for a head? You offer no appreciation, respect and only a pathetic attempt at humor. Really poor. Do you purposely troll UA-cam searching for opportunities to display your insufficiencies as a human? Keep searching. And yes, “guess I didn’t like your comment.”
JAMES MORRIS, EL ULTIMO DE LOS GRANDES WOTAN DE LA HISTORIA todo lo que vino después, es de una moda blandita que no se entiende el por qué. Todo para aprender de este gran cantante, con su hermosa voz de barítono-bajo, a quien tuve el placer de escuchar y conocer personalmente en 1996 encarnando este inmenso rol en el Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires.
I adore him as well. I saw my first Die Walküre at the Met. I´m a writer, I wrote a book on Wagner´s Ring in Spanish. It´s on the literary sources that inspired Wagner´s Ring. James Morris is on my book´s cover. The photo I bought from the gifted Met photographer, Marty Sohl.
Solideo 726: What exactly do you mean by “American style”? Did Joan Sutherland, Birgit Nilsson and Maria Callas have an Australian, Swedish and Greek “style”. Pathetic.
@@gazzzada Well, he's dead, but yeah, one of the greatest voices of the 20th century. Sorry, James Morris is a fine singer, good dramatically, but George London was convincing as a god. Wotan is a god, you know.
@@patdaley9098 well, let's say my vision of this peace in a part of Wotan's character, who is formally a god but literally says that he is "unfreiester Aller!" and only warm humanlike emotions and father's love may help us sympathize him, make him understandable and not just simply a "stupid monstrouslike god" with voice like from 'Großdeutsches Reich'. I only wanted to mention that we lived in our time, and our gods were different, more emotional, less imperative. Now new gods are coming, nowadays Wotans are going to be reflection of vital ideas... The time of London has passed long ago, and then Morris's too, who's next? )
Bob Smith: And just like all the people you have sex with who yell out someone else’s name to indicate you don’t measure up (literally) to let you know they’d rather be with anyone that can satisfy them. Piece of shit.
No inflection. Growly sound. Boring performance. Bland. Puts me to sleep. Listen to some of the German basses of the past to see how this should be sung.
Yeah buddy you should write it a third time so we can really agree with you. On the other hand you can shut your ass up and listen to this magnificent performance and like it for what it is.
Magnificent singing, magnificent orchestra, magnificent conducting... A true golden age.
Immenso Morris.....he sings with the heart
Beautiful majestic baritone voice. Not dark but rather heroic and warm in timbre. He never pushes and his artistry is amazing. He is the greatest Wotan ever to me.
I saw this Otto Schenk production many times with different Wotans and 3 times with James Morris in the part. James Levine nails this entire 3rd act as one huge orchestral piece and whomever the principals were they had to keep up with Levine and this amazing orchestra. James Morris is the ultimate Wotan.
For me, James Morris is really the finest Wotan - the majestic voice, the legato, the phrasing. And to think that he just sang a well-received Hans Sachs only a few weeks ago, nearly 20 years after this performance!
Dave Glo i completely agree with you
Morris is Wotan to me. Always will be. Maybe it's because I knew him as my first Wotan from the PBS Ring production but he really is magnificent in the role. Saw him live finally as the Devil in Devil's Progress in San Francisco a decade or so ago and even then it was wonderful to hear him live. Love his rich and emotive tones. Very fine singer that doesn't get the credit he deserved.
I have it on DVD
Every time that I think about Wotan i remember Mr Morris. I knew Wotan thank to him.
James Morris lends his magnificent bass/baritone to one of the finest operatic monologues ever written. He is backed by the magnificent Met Orchestra under the skilled baton of the late Maestro James Levine. (Eat your heart out, Kellie Pickler!)
They really filmed this perfectly, especially the last long zoom out. Really lovely. I saw this Gala at the Met production years and years ago, and I remember this piece most of all. Nice to know my memory was true to the event.
Buenísima interpretación vocal e Instrumental, gracias por el regalo, apreciación personal.
Esto es sublime. Makes you cry. No comparison whatsoever. Grande Morris y Levine
Incredible, incredible singer Mr Morris :D
And he started at the Met as an Italian basso cantante.
At age 26, I believe. I was first on stage with him there in 1977 in Trovatore when he was 30 years old. He was very smart to wait to sing Wagner and then became one of the great Wagnerian singers.
ESPECTACULAR
So glad to see that Wotan finally got some help for his bad eye. Without proper depth perception its difficult to know exactly where you're jabbing that spear.
Robin Blankenship: I guess being an ass comes easily to you. Do you even appreciate the music and the performance, or this beneath the pea brain that rattles in your sorry excuse for a head? You offer no appreciation, respect and only a pathetic attempt at humor. Really poor. Do you purposely troll UA-cam searching for opportunities to display your insufficiencies as a human? Keep searching. And yes, “guess I didn’t like your comment.”
@@johnpickford4222 Now, now sir... nothing wrong with a little joke.It does not detract from the music at all. Lighten up - as the young folk say.
Maravilloso James Morris. Incomparable!!!
The best Wotan! Perfect legato.
JAMES MORRIS, EL ULTIMO DE LOS GRANDES WOTAN DE LA HISTORIA
todo lo que vino después, es de una moda blandita que no se entiende el por qué. Todo
para aprender de este gran cantante, con su hermosa voz de barítono-bajo, a quien tuve el placer de escuchar y conocer personalmente en 1996 encarnando este inmenso rol en el Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires.
A consummate Wotan. Expressive and well sung.
Amazing.
Best Wotan ever.. deeply expressive you feel Wotan's pain
J'adore ce chanteur ! Mon Wotan préféré
I adore him as well. I saw my first Die Walküre at the Met. I´m a writer, I wrote a book on Wagner´s Ring in Spanish. It´s on the literary sources that inspired Wagner´s Ring. James Morris is on my book´s cover. The photo I bought from the gifted Met photographer, Marty Sohl.
Best Wotan ever
The best Wotan!
The beauty in the voice is long gone. Wagner is not something you sing when you have no voice left.
A, diferencia de terfel ,tiene una voz adecuada,y es de los mejores, livine grandisimo.
As Wotan James Morris is a Fantastic second to Hans Hotter
What you want is the San Francisco version.
For me he's the best Wotan
Looks like it's from this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Levine%27s_25th_Anniversary_Metropolitan_Opera_Gala
14:30 for the Wotan-off!
the way he slid into "nie" was kinda gross though lol
American style~~~but BRAVO~~~
Solideo 726: What exactly do you mean by “American style”? Did Joan Sutherland, Birgit Nilsson and Maria Callas have an Australian, Swedish and Greek “style”. Pathetic.
Tout dans le nez et quel accent ! Voix sans grandeur, style terrible, timbre quelconque. Il existe deux Wotan, Georges London et Hans Hotter.
El mejor wotan de la historia
Un Wotan de referència.
Bland. He puts to sleep.
It's always the case when you found someone who performed the best Wotan, and then again listened to Morris: "No, it seemed!"
Well, he'S a fine singer, but George London was a great one.
@@patdaley9098 is he?
@@gazzzada Well, he's dead, but yeah, one of the greatest voices of the 20th century. Sorry, James Morris is a fine singer, good dramatically, but George London was convincing as a god. Wotan is a god, you know.
@@patdaley9098 well, let's say my vision of this peace in a part of Wotan's character, who is formally a god but literally says that he is "unfreiester Aller!" and only warm humanlike emotions and father's love may help us sympathize him, make him understandable and not just simply a "stupid monstrouslike god" with voice like from 'Großdeutsches Reich'. I only wanted to mention that we lived in our time, and our gods were different, more emotional, less imperative. Now new gods are coming, nowadays Wotans are going to be reflection of vital ideas... The time of London has passed long ago, and then Morris's too, who's next? )
They should have just played a recording of George London and have James Morris mouth the words!!!!!
Bob Smith: And just like all the people you have sex with who yell out someone else’s name to indicate you don’t measure up (literally) to let you know they’d rather be with anyone that can satisfy them. Piece of shit.
No inflection. Growly sound. Boring performance. Bland. Puts me to sleep. Listen to some of the German basses of the past to see how this should be sung.
Yeah buddy you should write it a third time so we can really agree with you. On the other hand you can shut your ass up and listen to this magnificent performance and like it for what it is.