Morgan Smith

Morgan has graduated from Columbia College, Columbia University and Columbia University, as well as Columbia University and the Mannes College of Music. In New York City he was selected to be an Seattle Opera "young artist" (1999-2000). He first made his debut as a professional at Seattle Opera in 2001 in Billy Budd. Smith is known as a Seattle frequented performer and has appeared in parts in 12 other operas that include Don Giovanni, Silvio in I Pagliacci (title role), Riccardo I Puritani, Peter Niles Mourning Becomes Electra, as well as the Count Alamaviva In Le nozze di Figaro. Smith is a regular performer and a frequent guest on stage, made the Dallas Symphony debut in Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Additionally, he played the North American premier of Detlef Glanert's orchestral reworking of Brahms' beloved Cycle Vier Praludien and Ernste Gesange together with and the San Antonio Symphony. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the Requiems by Brahms and Faure as well as Mozart as well as the masses of C Minor as well as G Minor written by Vaughan Williams, Bach's B Minor Mass and many Cantatas; H ndel's Messiah, L'Allegro il Penseroso and il Moderato, and Haydn's The Creation, Lord Nelson Mass and Haydn's The Creation are also included as part of the repertoire for concert performances.