Morgan Smith

Morgan Smith, who is a graduate of Columbia College and Mannes College of Music in New York City's Columbia University, was a Seattle Opera Young Artist (1999-2000). In 2001, he began his career in Billy Budd portraying Donald. Smith is known as a Seattle frequented performer and has appeared in the roles in 12 different productions such as Don Giovanni, Silvio in I Pagliacci (title role), Riccardo I Puritani, Peter Niles Mourning Becomes Electra, as well as the role of Count Alamaviva In Le nozze di Figaro. Smith has a long-running career as a performer on concert stages. Smith was the first to make his Dallas Symphony debut in Bach's St. Matthew Passion and also performed with San Antonio Symphony in the San Antonio Symphony at the North American premiere for Detlef Glanert's orchestral interpretation of Brahms loved cycle Vier Praludien Und Ernste Gesange. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the Requiems by Brahms as well as Faure and Mozart, the Masses with the choral works in C Minor and G Minor written by Vaughan Williams, Bach's B Minor Mass and many Cantatas as well as Handel's Messiah, L'Allegro il Penseroso and the Moderato from the Haydn's The Creation, Lord Nelson Mass and Haydn's The Creation are also included in the repertoire for concerts.