In the 2024-25 season, GRAMMY and Emmy Award-winning baritone Reginald Smith, Jr. takes on the roles of Scarpia in Tosca at 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. He performs as a featured soloist in concerts with the New Jersey Symphony led by Xian Zhang, the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, the Memphis Symphony, 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.
Last season, Smith made his Santa Fe Opera debut as Scarpia in Tosca and returned to the Houston Grand Opera to take on the title role in Falstaff. He sang the role of Amonasro in the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s production of Aida immediately after jumping in as for the company’s production of Terence Blanchard’s Champion, inspiring New City Stage to write, “Baritone Reginald Smith Jr., who was so magnificent as the older Emile in Champion, made a chilling Amonasro in what is often a throwaway role.” In concert, he returned as the featured baritone soloist for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Christmas Pops performances.
During the 2022-23 season, Smith returned to the Houston Grand Opera as Pascoe in Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers and made his Fort Worth Opera debut as Amonasro in Aida. In concert, he debuted with the San Francisco Symphony in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and the Memphis Symphony in Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem. In addition, he returned to the New Jersey Symphony for Fauré’s Requiem and performed as the Grinch in the Windsor Symphony Orchestra’s Holiday Pops concerts. Smith also participated in a United in Song concert with the American Pops Orchestra, televised nationally on PBS, and appeared in the Richard Tucker Music Foundation’s annual gala at David Geffen Hall. He also performed in a recital at Mercer University.
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