Originally from White Plains , NY ,  Morgan Smith received his training from Columbia College and the Mannes College of Music in New York City . The baritone made his professional operatic debut in 2001, singing the role of Donald in Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd, with Seattle Opera. Mr. Smith has since performed numerous times with the company, appearing as Prince Yamadori in Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Peter Niles in Mourning Becomes Electra, Morales  in Carmen, and Sonora in La Fanciulla del West.  The young baritone has also performed with the San Francisco Opera, Portland Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Sarasota Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Florentine Opera , El Paso Opera, the Pine Mountain Music Festival, and the Bellingham Music Festival. Roles performed include Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro),  Papageno, Marcello,  Don Alvaro (Il Viaggio a Reims), Slook (La Cambiale di Matrimonio),Top (The Tenderland), Belcore, Guglielmo, and Don Giovanni. The Bellingham Herald had the following to say about his performance as Don Giovanni: "Morgan Smith of the Seattle Opera gave an electrifying performance as Don Giovanni, radiating saturnine power, dark magnetism and cruel charm. His ample, cognac-smooth voice has just enough snarl to give it bite. This young singer already inhabits the role the way James Bond fills a tux.".

Mr. Smith has had the opportunity to appear with several orchestras around the U.S. , including the National Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Portland Symphony Seattle Symphony, and St. Louis Symphony, Omaha Symphony, and North Arkansas Symphony. He also makes regular appearances with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, with whom he recently performed Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. 

Smith is also gaining a reputation for his interpretation of modern orchestral and operatic repertoire.  Credits include covering Gerald Finley as Robert Oppenheimer, in the world Premiere of John Adams’ Dr. Atomic at San Francisco Opera, the world premiere of a work by Richard Cumming with the Hartford Symphony, entitled, Aspects of Hippolytus, and the title role in the Tony Kushner/Maurice Sendak adaptation of Hans Krasa’s children’s opera, Brundibar, with Seattle’s Music of Remembrance (Gerard Schwarz, conductor –recording scheduled for release on the Naxos label). In addition, Smith will perform 2 world premiere works by eminent American opera composers in the spring of 2007: a song cycle illuminating the struggle and suffering of gay victims during the Holocaust, by Jake Heggie (commissioned by Music of Remembrance, and entitled, "For a Look, or a Touch"), and the role of Ted Steinert in Frau Margot by Thomas Pasetieri (commissioned by Fort Worth Opera, with original libretto by Frank Corsaro).

Additional future engagements include Escamillo with Tacoma Opera, Dandini with Portland Opera, and three more roles in Seattle : including the title role in Don Giovanni in January of '07.

His website is http://morgansmith.voxpage1.com