MALCOLM SMITH, Bass

Bass Malcolm Smith has appeared with the world’s leading opera companies, including the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Hamburg Opera, Munich Opera, Vienna State Opera, Paris Opera Bastille, and the New York City Opera.

In concert, Mr. Smith has performed with such leading orchestras as the Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony, Montreal Symphony, and the National Symphony.  Mr. Smith has performed the world premieres of Penderecki’s The Black Mask at the Salzburg Festival and Robert Ward’s Abelard and Heloise at the Charlotte Opera. 

For many years Mr. Smith was Principal Bass at the Düsseldorf Opera and in 1996, he received the honorary title of “Kammersaenger.”  The Düsseldorf Opera stage a production of Boris Godunov especially for Mr. Smith and he has performed it throughout Western Europe.   He has performed numerous operas with the Düsseldorf Opera, including Tannhauser, Das Rheingold, Der Rosenkavalier, Siegfried, Der Freischuetz, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Parsifal, Aida, Don Carlos, Tristan und Isolde, Der fliegende Hollaender, Boris Godunov, Don Carlos, Die Zauberflöte, and “King Henry” in Lohengrin, a role he has also performed at Dresden’s Semperoper and at La Scala.  

Other operas performed have include Britten’s Noyes Fludde, Pelleas et Melisande, Peter Grimes, Romeo et Juliette, and Fidelio with Lorin Maazel and the Pittsburgh Symphony at Carnegie Hall and at the Bregenz Festival.  Mr. Smith has also appeared in Arabella, andProkofiev’s Flaming Angel. 

Mr. Smith’s concert performances include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Berlioz’s Romeo and Juliet, Verdi’s Requiem, Bach’s St. John’s Passion, Mozart’s Requiem, Handel’s Samson, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8.   He has performed with the Portland Symphony, Midland Symphony, Schwerin Festival in Germany, Grand Rapids Opera, Barcelona’s Gran Teatro del liceu, and Teatro Real Madrid.
 
Mr. Smith has recorded Liszt’s Grande Messe and Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex with the French Radio Orchestra in Paris. Subsequent performances and recordings of Handel’s Samson and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 firmly established him on the American scene as an artist fluent in both opera and oratorio repertoire.

Mr. Smith holds degrees from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and Columbia University, has studied at Indiana University, and is currently listed in Who’s Who in America.