Morgan Smith

Graduate of Columbia College at Columbia University and Mannes College of Music in New York City, Morgan became a Seattle Opera young artist (1999-2000) and in 2001 there made his professional debut in the role of Donald in Billy Budd. Smith is well-known as a Seattle fan and has performed the roles in 12 different productions, including Don Giovanni, Silvio in I Pagliacci (title role), Riccardo I Puritani, Peter Niles Mourning Becomes Electra and the role of Count Alamaviva In Le nozze di Figaro. Smith is a regular performer is making his Dallas Symphony debut in Bach's St. Matthew Passion. He also performed the North American premier of Detlef Glanert's orchestral adaption of Brahmsfamous cycle Vier Praludien and Ernste Gesange in the San Antonio Symphony. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the Requiems composed by Brahms as well as Faure and Mozart as well as the masses with the choral works in C Minor and G Minor composed by Vaughan Williams, Bach's B Minor Mass and numerous Cantatas and H ndel's Messiah, L'Allegro il Penseroso and the Moderato. the Haydn's The Creation, Lord Nelson Mass and Haydn's The Creation are also included in the repertoire for concerts.