Reginald Smith Jr.

Reginald Smith, Jr., is a GRAMMY and Emmy Award-winning, lauded as a "passionate performer" (The New York Times) with a voice that is "electric, hall-filling" (The Baltimore Sun), "thrillingly dramatic" (Opera News) and "one of the most exciting baritone sounds to come along in years" (Opera News).

In the 2024-25 season, Smith takes on the roles of Scarpia in Toscaat the New Orleans Opera, Alfio in Cavalleria Rusticana with the Sacramento Philharmonic, and returns to Washington National Opera as the title character Porgy in Porgy and Bess. In concert, he performs as a featured soloist with the New Jersey Symphony, the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and in a solo recital at the Fine Arts Center in Greenville, South Carolina. In Spring 2025, Smith makes his Baltimore Symphony Orchestra debut as Amonasro in a staged version of Aida.

In previous seasons, he made his Santa Fe Opera debut, returned to the Houston Grand Opera, and made his Fort Worth Opera debut. He also took part in a United in Song concert with the American Pops Orchestra,televised nationally on PBS, and performed in recitals at Mercer University and the Richard Tucker Music Foundation's annual gala. Throughout his operatic career, Smith has performed with leading companies worldwide, including his Metropolitan Opera debut in 2019 that won him a 2021 GRAMMY Award for Best Opera Recording and debuts with Opera Hong Kong and the Dallas Opera.

Born in Atlanta, Smith is a Grand Finals winner of the 2015 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions anda graduate of the Houston Grand Opera Studio, among many other accolades.