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He has logged over 250 performances in the U.S. Opera as a singer, performing twenty-one leading roles in opera, operetta and musical He studied with Nick Mangano, Nic Muni and Sandra Bernhard. Smith holds an MFA in Opera Stage Directing from the University of Cincinnati where University of Akron, University of Miami (OH), Mars Hill College (NC), Oakland University University of Cincinnati/CCM, Penn State University, Western Kentucky University, Increasingly in demand as a clinician, Smith has given acting masterclasses at the In 2013 he was appointedĪrtistic Director of the Accademia Vocale Lorenzo Malfatti, a summer training program Theater, Pittsburgh Opera and the Opera Theatre of Pittsburgh. Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center, Cincinnati Opera, Michigan Opera Where he worked on eleven productions over two years.

In 2010, Smith finished his tenure as the Resident Assistant Director at Seattle Opera The University of Cincinnati/CCM, Baldwin Wallace University and The Opera Theater The Intermountain Opera Association, the Young Artist Program at Pittsburgh Opera, He has directed for Seattle Opera's YoungĪrtist Program, Tacoma Opera, Asheville Lyric Opera, Opera Theatre of Pittsburgh, In 2012, he directedĪll of the Mozart/Da Ponte collaborations. The Pirates of Penzance, La Cenerentola, and The Turn of the Screw. Smith has recently directed new productions of La finta giardiniera, Hansel and Gretel, Have been hailed by Opera News as "full of comic inventiveness." He bringsĪ balance of practical experience and innovative storytelling to his projects, which Opera stage director Benjamin Smith has led nineteen new productions since 2000, rangingįrom Pergolesi's La serva padrona to Conrad Susa's The Dangerous Liaisons. B.M., Bachelor of Music, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, 1999.M.M., Master of Music, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, 2003.M.F.A., Master of Fine Arts, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, 2007.