Hines, Jerome (1921- )

US bass and composer. He made his debut in San Francisco in 1941, in Tannhäuser. He sang Méphistophélès in New Orleans in 1944, and Boris Godunov at the New York Metropolitan Opera House in 1954, a role he repeated at the Bolshoi in Moscow in 1962. He performed at Bayreuth 1958-60 as Gurnemanz, King Marke, and the Die Walküre/The Valkyrie Wotan. His other roles include Sarastro, Don Giovanni, Nick Shadow (which he sang in Edinburgh in 1953), and Rossini's Basilio. He published his autobiography in 1968 and Great Singers on Great Singing in 1983. His own opera, I am the Way, is based on the life of Christ.