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

Smith’s 2025-2026 season featured his Carnegie Hall debut in Carlisle Floyd’s The Pilgrimage as well as house and role debuts at Seattle Opera as the Pirate King in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance; at Minnesota Opera as Tonio in Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci; and with the Oakland Symphony in his first Verdi Requiem. He appeared at the Houston Grand Opera for his role debut as Peter in Hänsel und Gretel and in the title role in Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Windsor Symphony Orchestra. In concert, he returned to the Phoenix and Dallas Symphony Orchestras for special holiday performances.

In recent seasons, Smith made debuts with the Washington National Opera, Baltimore Symphony, and Sacramento Philharmonic. Throughout his operatic career, Smith has performed with leading companies worldwide, including the Metropolitan Opera—where he won a 2021 GRAMMY Award for Best Opera Recording for his house debut in 2019—as well as the Dallas Opera and Hong Kong Opera.

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