Jay Hunter Morris to Sing Title Role in the Met's Siegfried

Jay Hunter Morris will sing the title role in the new production of Wagner's Siegfried which opens on October 27 and continues on November 1 and 5 matinee. He replaces Gary Lehman who has withdrawn due to illness. The November 5 matinee will be transmitted worldwide as part of The Met: Live in HD series.

Morris, who made his Met debut in 2007 as Števa in Janá?ek's Jen?fa, sang the role of Siegfried this past summer at the San Francisco Opera. Other Wagner roles in his repertory include Walther in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (San Francisco Opera), Erik in Der Fliegende Holländer (Atlanta Opera), and Tristan in Tristan und Isolde, which he will sing for the first time next year at the Welsh National Opera.

He has also performed in numerous works by contemporary composers, including Howard Shore's The Fly, Elliott Goldenthal and Julie Taymor's Grendel, André Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire, and Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking and Moby Dick.

Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leads Robert Lepage's new production of Siegfried, which also stars Deborah Voigt as Brünnhilde, Bryn Terfel as the Wanderer, Eric Owens as Alberich, Gerhard Siegel as Mime, and Mojca Erdmann as the Woodbird.

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