Smith Jr., Reginald

Reginald Smith, Jr. (Houston, Texas)

2025–26 Season: Soloist, Pride Concert

San Francisco Opera Highlights: Count Monterone in Rigoletto

Recent and Upcoming: Carlisle Floyd's The Pilgrimage (Carnegie Hall); Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance (Seattle Opera); Tonio in Pagliacci (Minnesota Opera); Verdi Requiem (Oakland Symphony); Peter in Hänsel und Gretel (Houston Grand Opera); Mendelssohn's Elijah (Windsor Symphony Orchestra); holiday concerts (Phoenix Symphony, Dallas Symphony Orchestra); title role of Porgy and Bess (Washington National Opera); Alfio in Cavalleria Rusticana (Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera); Amonasro in Aida (Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Fort Worth Opera); Scarpia in Tosca (New Orleans Opera, New Mexico Philharmonic, Santa Fe Opera); Giving Voice concert (HGO); recital (Greenville's Fine Arts Center); title role of Falstaff (HGO); Emile in Terence Blanchard's Champion (Chicago); Jim in Porgy and Bess (Metropolitan Opera); Uncle Paul in Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones (Chicago); Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte (San Diego Opera); Germont in La Traviata (Holy City Arts & Lyric Opera); Castor in Gregory Spears' Castor and Patience (Cincinnati Opera); Monterone in Rigoletto (Portland Opera)

Winner of Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (2015)

Website: reginaldsmithjr.com

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