Morgan Smith

Morgan Smith, who is a graduate of Columbia College and Mannes College of Music in NYC's Columbia University, was a Seattle Opera Young Artist (1999-2000). In 2001 he made his stage debut with Billy Budd as Donald. Smith is a Seattle fan and has performed roles in twelve other productions which include Don Giovanni, Silvio in I Pagliacci (title role), Riccardo I Puritani, Peter Niles Mourning Becomes Electra in the musical, and also the role of Count Alamaviva, in Le nozze di Figaro. Smith regularly performs on stages for concerts. He performed his Dallas Symphony debut in Bach's St. Matthew Passion and additionally performed with his orchestra, the San Antonio Symphony at the North American premiere for Detlef Glanert's orchestral rendition of Brahms popular cycle, Vier Praludien Und Ernste Gesange. The other repertoire for concerts includes Beethoven's Ninth Symphony; the Requiems of Brahms, Faure, Mozart Durufle, and Faure; the Mass that is in C Minor in C Minor of Mozart and Mass in G Minor from Vaughan Williams; Bach's B Minor Mass as well as numerous cantatas, and Weihnachts Oratorium; Handel's Messiah and L'Allegro and the il Penseroso and il Moderato as well as Haydn's The Creation and Lord Nelson Mass.