Devony Smith, Mezzo Soprano

FAST FACTS
• Soloist at Carnegie Hall in December with The Masterwork Chorus & Orchestra, Handel’s Messiah
• Roles at NYC Opera, Opera Freiberg, Stuttgart Radio
• Sought-after collaborator with composers, having premiered works by Grammy-award winning composer Jennifer Higdon, Jake Landau, Eve Beglarian, and Luna Pearl Woolf.

Recognized for her "sensual" and "strong" voice (New York Times), mezzo-soprano Devony Smith is a versatile performer with a wide-ranging repertoire in opera and concert music. Recent seasons have held a variety of role debuts for Devony, including Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Hansel in Hansel and Gretel, and the title role in La Cenerentola with Opera Modesto, as well as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia with New York City Opera, Dido in Dido and Aeneas at Teatro Comunale di Narni, and the Rooster in a new orchestral arrangement of The Cunning Little Vixen conducted by Fabrice Bollon in collaboration with Opera Freiburg, which premiered on the SWR Stuttgart radio and was released on CD under the Naxos label. 

Devony is a sought-after collaborator with composers, having premiered works by Grammy-award winning composer Jennifer Higdon, Jake Landau, Eve Beglarian, and Luna Pearl Woolf. This spring, she sang the role of the Designer in the world premiere of Woolf's oratorio Number Our Days at the Perelman Performing Arts Center with the choir of Trinity Wall Street. Devony has a long relationship with Kate Soper’s work Here Be Sirens, which she has performed four different seasons, including an appearance at National Sawdust. Devony recently joined the Albany Symphony for a concert of 5 world-premiere pieces at the EMPAC theater in Troy.