Morgan Smith

Morgan Smith, a student from Columbia College and Mannes College of Music at the New York city's Columbia University, was a Seattle Opera Young Artist (1999-2000). In 2001, he made his debut in Billy Budd playing Donald. A great favorite to perform in Seattle, Mr. Smith has performed roles in a dozen other operas since his debut, including The Count Alamaviva from Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni (title role), Silvio in I Pagliacci, Riccardo in I Puritani and Peter Niles in Mourning Becomes an Electra. Smith, a frequent performer, made his 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 the San Antonio Symphony. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the Requiems composed by Brahms and Faure and Mozart The Masses in C Minor as well as G Minor composed by Vaughan Williams, Bach's B Minor Mass and many Cantatas as well as 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 in the repertoire for concerts.