Morgan Smith

Morgan was a graduate of Columbia College, Columbia University and Columbia University, as well as Columbia University and the Mannes College of Music. In New York City he was picked to be an Seattle Opera "young artist" (1999-2000). He made his professional debut at Seattle Opera in 2001 in Billy Budd. Smith is an established Seattle favorite and has played parts in 12 other operas, including Don Giovanni, Silvio in I Pagliacci (title role), Riccardo I Puritani, Peter Niles Mourning Becomes Electra in the musical, and also The Count Alamaviva In Le nozze di Figaro. Smith, a frequent performer, made his Dallas Symphony debut in Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Also, he appeared in an appearance in the North American premier of Detlef Glanert's orchestral version of Brahmspopular Cycle Vier Praludien and Ernste Gesange as part of his orchestra, the San Antonio Symphony. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the Requiems composed by Brahms as well as Faure as well as Mozart The Masses of C Minor and G Minor composed by Vaughan Williams, Bach's B Minor Mass and a variety of Cantatas as well as the Handel'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 in the concert program.