BIOGRAPHY
This summer, Smith will be singing Laetitia in Menotti’s “The Old Maid and the Thief” as a Studio Artist for Angels Vocal Academy. She spent part of her spring in France, where she performed a private recital in a chateau of Normandy for the yearly “Pierres et Lumières” event.
Lily Smith holds a Master’s of Music Degree from the Thornton School of Music at USC, in Los Angeles. She also earned a Bachelor of Music and a Bachelor of Arts from Northwestern University in Chicago, IL.
In 2022, Lily Smith took on a great variety of roles. She sang Svetlana in the world premiere of All The Truths We Cannot See in Helsinki, Finland. Upon returning to LA, she interpreted the role of Madam Mathilde in LA Opera Connect’s production of On Gold Mountain and then joined Opera Steamboat to sing Princess Gilda in The Three Feathers. Leaving the contemporary repertoire, Lily also had the pleasure of being Cendrillon in Massenet’s Cendrillon with Chicago Summer Opera, and went on to Santa Fe, NM, to take part in Opera West’s production of I Pagliacci.
CALENDAR
Laetitia in The Old Maid and the Thief by Gian Carlo Menotti
Recital Saint-Denis-Maisoncelles
May 2023 | Normandy, France
Villager 1 in I Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo
November 2022 | Opera West, Santa Fe
Gilda in The Three Feathers by Lori Laitman
August 2022 | Steamboat Opera Artist Institute
Cendrillon in Cendrillon by Jules Massenet
July 2022 | Chicago Summer Opera
Madam Mathilde in On Gold Mountain by Nathan Wang
May 2022 | Los Angeles Opera Connects
Svetlana in All the Truths We Cannot See by Uljas Pulkkis
March 2022 | Helsinki, Finland
Minnie in The Night Flight of Minerva’s Owl by Guang Yang
Fall 2020 | University of Southern California
GALLERY
All the Truths We Cannot See | Sibelius Academy | Helsinki, Finland | March 2022 | Photos by Sakari Viika
All the Truths We Cannot See | Sibelius Academy | Helsinki, Finland | March 2022 | Photos by Sakari Viika
All the Truths We Cannot See | Sibelius Academy | Helsinki, Finland | March 2022 | Photos by Sakari Viika
All the Truths We Cannot See | Sibelius Academy | Helsinki, Finland | March 2022 | Photos by Sakari Viika
All the Truths We Cannot See | Sibelius Academy | Helsinki, Finland | March 2022 | Photos by Sakari Viika
All the Truths We Cannot See | Sibelius Academy | Helsinki, Finland | March 2022 | Photos by Sakari Viika
NEWS
Une cantatrice participe à un concert caritatif pour sauver une église de Souleuvre-en-Bocage
https://www.lahttps://www.ouest-france.fr/normandie/souleuvre-en-bocage-14350/une-cantatrice-participe-a-un-concert-caritatif-pour-sauver-une-eglise-de-souleuvre-en-bocage-e01019c6-f19e-11ed-910f-98a40b09db7eopera.org/about-us/artists-2/cast-members/lily-smith/...
On Gold Mountain, an American-Chinese Opera in the Huntington Gardens (Los Angeles)
https://www.laopera.org/about-us/artists-2/cast-members/lily-smith/
All The Truths We Cannot See, World Premiere of a Chernobyl Story (Helsinki, Finland)
https://music.usc.edu/all-the-truths-we-cannot-see-a-chernobyl-story/
Opéra, Brahms et Beethoven au Châtelier
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