Roy Cornelius Smith , tenor, was born in the United States. His repertoire includes Clough in Turandot , Quercus in Tosca , Dick Johnson in The Girl from the West , De Graie in Manon Lescaut (Puccini), Don José in Carmen (Bizet), Eric in The Flying Dutchman , Tristan in Tristan and Isolde (Wagner), Canio in Pegliacci (Leonquello), Max in Freischutz (Weber), Eleazar in Yehudi (Halevy), Florestan in Fidelio (Beethoven), Faust in Mephistopheles (Boito), the Emperor in A Woman Without a Shadow (R. Strauss), the title role in Peter Grimes (Brittany), the title role in Andrea II (Giordano), Radames in Aida (Verdi) and more. He appears at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the opera houses of Chicago, Berlin, Oslo, Copenhagen, Mannheim, Strasbourg, Leipzig, Antwerp, Bregenz, New Orleans and more. At the Israeli Opera he sang the role of the Rebbe in Derech Hantechait (Weill).
