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American tenor Hugh Smith has been heralded at the great opera houses of
Europe as well as the important opera houses and concert halls of the
United States. February 2008 marked his debut with the Israeli
Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta as Don Carlo, about which the
Israeli critics wrote "The phenomenal voice of Hugh Smith in the
principal role of Don Carlo takes the audience aback. Smith, a heroic
tenor, does wonders with his voice from every point of view, either
forceful or brilliant." Ha'aretz. Hugh Smith has sung with the
Chicago, San Francisco, Houston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati,
Miami, and San Diego Operas as well as with the opera houses of Paris,
Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Geneva, Tokyo, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Bologna and
Lyon.
Most recent engagements include La Forza del Destino at la Monnaie,
Jenufa in Marseilles, Il Tabarro in Warsaw, Mefistofele,
in Tel Aviv and the Beethoven Symphony #9 in Sao Paolo. He will
make his Metropolitan Opera debut in Carmen, Tosca and Stiffelio,
Aida and Ernani in Tel Aviv and a return to Marseilles
for Wozzeck.
Other recent engagements include role debuts in La Forza del Destino
and La Gioconda in Tel Aviv, Lohengrin and Ein
Florentinische Tragödie
with Opera Lyon, I Pagliacci with Opera Nancy, Norma with
Netherlands Opera, Mazeppa with Welsh National Opera and La
Fanciulla del West with the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
In
Europe, he has appeared with the Opera de Paris in Don Carlo,
Theatre du Chatelet in Arabella, Les Troyens and Lelio,
Bayerische Staatsoper in Manon Lescaut, Teatro San Carlo in
Madama Butterfly, Teatro Communale di Bologna in Attila, Geneva
and Berlin Staatsoper in Norma, with the Deutsche Oper Berlin in
Un Ballo in Maschera and with the Orchestre de Paris as Benvenuto
Cellini, the Liceu of Barcelona in Manon Lescaut, the BBC
Philharmonic in the Verdi Requiem, the Concertgebouw for Bruckner's
Te Deum and Manon Lescaut and Mahler's Symphony No. 8
and Dvorak's Stabat Mater in the Grand Canary Islands.
Opera performances in the U.S. have included Jenufa and Attila
with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Manon Lescaut, Il Trovatore and
Eugene Onegin with Opera Pacific, Madama Butterfly With San
Francisco Opera and Houston Grand Opera and Carmen with Opera
Company of Philadelphia and Michigan Opera Theatre.
On
the U.S concert stage he has sung with the Collegiate Chorale at Carnegie
Hall in Nabucco and Giovanna d'Arco, at Avery Fisher Hall
with the American Symphony Orchestra in Die Liebe der Danae and
Le Roi Arthur as well as guest appearances with the St. Louis, Puerto
Rico and Pacific Symphony’s and the Dayton and Fort Wayne Philharmonics.
Mr. Smith has appeared under the batons of Marco Armiliato, Maurizio
Benini, Richard Bonynge, Leon Botstein, James Conlon, Sir Andrew Davis,
John DeMain, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Christoph Eschenbach, Asher Fisch,
John Eliot Gardiner, Zubin Mehta, Eduardo Muller, Steven Sloane and Simone
Young among others.
HUGH SMITH,
Tenor
OPERATIC
REPERTOIRE:
Bellini
Norma Pollione
Beethoven
Fidelio Florestan
Berlioz Benvenuto
Cellini Cellini
Les
Troyens Aeneas
Britten Peter
Grimes Grimes”
Bizet
Carmen Don Jose
Boito
Mefistofele Faust
Janacek
Jenufa Laca
Ponchielli La
Gioconda Enzo
Puccini La Fanciulla del
West Dick Johnson
Madama
Butterfly Pinkerton
Manon
Lescaut Des Grieux
Tosca Cavaradossi
Turandot Calaf
Verdi Un Ballo in
Maschera Riccardo
Don
Carlo Don Carlo
La Forza del
Destino Alvaro
Otello Otello
Il
Trovatore Manrico
Strauss Aridane auf
Naxos Bacchus*
Die Frau ohne
Shatten Kaiser *
Die Liebe der
Danae Midas
Tchaikovsky
Mazeppa Andrei
Wagner
Lohengrin Lohengrin
Fliegende
Hollander Erik
Tannhauser Tannhauser*
*in
preparation
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