(Mary) (b Lisbon, July 13, 1945). British soprano. She studied in Lisbon and made her début there as the Voice from Heaven in Don Carlos in 1968. In 1971 she moved to London where she had further tuition from Winifred Radford and Pierre Bernac. Her roles include Mozart’s Countess Almaviva (1979, WNO) and Amyntas (1987, Lisbon), and Rameau’s Alphise in the stage première of Les Boréades (1982, Aix-en-Provence); she made her American début as Cybele in Lully’s Atys in New York in 1988. Other parts include Gluck’s Eurydice and Rameau’s Folly (Platée). She has also appeared with Scottish Opera and Kent Opera, and in 1991 sang the Queen of Night in Toronto and Reine Berthe/La Vieille (Duni’s La fée Urgèle) at the Opéra-Comique. Smith is a versatile artist able on the one hand to bring grandeur and pathos to her interpretations and on the other to sustain light-hearted, comic and mischievous roles as she has demonstrated in ...