So, Figaros Hochzeit at Berlin's Bodemuseum is open and the audiences are loving it! The casts are wonderful to work with in such an intimate show. However, after such a long rehearsal process -- where we were working every single day -- it's quite weird to go 7 days without seeing my colleagues.
Despite feeling like a total dufus when I run around stage pretending to be a peacock, my friends who have seen the show insist that it really is funny. They enjoy the fact that there is always something to look at in the course of the 2.5 hours. YES!! Figaro is condensed to 2.5 hours!!
So, if you would like to see me prance around stage and show my feathers, you can get tickets at www.figaro-im-bode.de.
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Bass-Baritone, V.W. (Bryce) Smith hails from Lumberton, Mississippi and has been a resident artist with Opera Colorado, Central City Opera, Dicapo Opera Theatre, Natchez Festival of Music and Tulane Summer Lyric Theatre in New Orleans. After moving to NYC in 2003, he made his professional concert debut as the soloist in Händel’s Messiah at Carnegie Hall in 2004. By 2008, he founded Opera Manhattan – a company for artists by artists.
Smith became a D.C. favorite after singing a guest performance with the Capitol Symphony Orchestra as a National Scholar Alumnus for the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished American’s 60th Anniversary Inaugural Dinner at Andrew Mellon Auditorium. He was then asked to perform the national anthem at Susan G. Komen Foundation’s 18th & 19th annual National Race for the Cure, the largest race/walk fundraising event in the world with over 50,000 participants on the National Mall.
Smith has received numerous awards from companies such as the Mobile Opera Guild, Denver Lyric Opera Guild and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. He has been a featured soloist with the Staten Island Symphony for Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and also seen as Miles Gloriosus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Zuniga in Carmen, Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Count Capulet in Romeo et Juliette, Simone in Gianni Schicchi, Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro, Pistola in Falstaff, Macheath in The Threepenny Opera, Don Giovanni, Mephistofeles in Gounod’s Faust, Colline in La Bohème, the Villains in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, and Duke Bluebeard in Bluebeard’s Castle in Hungarian.
This season, he performed the Four Villains in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann for which the critics claimed: “Bryce Smith…is a remarkable stage presence. His frightening laughter, striking physical presence and expressive face brought the villains to life”, “Smith turned in a riveting performance as the villains…” and “Bass-baritone Bryce Smith was stellar.”