Roy Cornelius Smith is an American operatic tenor, from Big Stone Gap, Virginia. Smith has performed leading tenor roles at many opera houses and festivals including the Salzburg Festival, Spoleto Festival, Metropolitan Opera, Vienna Volksoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, New York City Opera, and Lyric Opera of Chicago. He has also performed as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Orchestra del Teatro Carlo Felice, Orchestre M�tropolitain du Grand Montr�al and with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. In the summer of 2011 Roy Cornelius Smith made his Bregenzer Festspiele debut, performing the title role in Andrea Chenier. Opera News stated "Roy Cornelius Smith has crossed into the dramatic repertoire, his voice darkening and gaining power, but without loss of its inherent sweetness and trumpet-like metallic top. Creating a vivid, charismatic character, Smith excelled in the role's two big arias, particularly an impassioned ringing 'Improviso'".