Aidan Smith

British bass Aidan Smith made his Royal Opera debut in 2009 in THE BEGGAR’S OPERA in the Linbury Studio Theatre and has since returned to sing in LUDD AND ISIS for the Learning and Participation Department of the Royal Opera House and Nana/Starkey PETER PAN for Welsh National Opera on the main stage. Smith studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Royal Academy of Music and the National Opera Studio. He is an associate artist with WNO, where his roles include Leuthold GUILLAUME TELL, Zuniga CARMEN, Second Armed Man DIE ZAUBERFLOETE and Second Customer/Monk in Jonathan Harvey’s WAGNER DREAM. Operatic engagements elsewhere include Betto GIANNI SCHICCHI for English Touring Opera and Opera Holland Park, Drunken Poet THE FAIRY QUEEN for English Touring Opera, Larkins LA FANCIULLA