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 the Seattle Opera "young artist" (1999-2000). The singer began his professional career at Seattle Opera in 2001 in Billy Budd. One of the most popular roles in Seattle and beyond, Mr. Smith has performed roles in a dozen other operas since that debut -- including the role of Count Alamaviva as Count Alamaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni (title role), Silvio in I Pagliacci, Riccardo in I Puritani, and Peter Niles in Mourning Becomes Electra. An established performer on the concert stage with the Seattle Symphony, Mr. Smith made his Dallas Symphony debut with Bach's St. Matthew Passion, and was also featured with The San Antonio Symphony for the North American premiere of Vier Praludien und Ernste Gesange, Detlef Glanert's orchestral version of the adored work by Brahms. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the Requiems composed by Brahms and Faure and Mozart and the two Masses in C Minor as well as G Minor composed by Vaughan Williams, Bach's B Minor Mass as well as numerous cantatas that include 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 concert repertoire.