Jennifer Smith

Jennifer Smith (born 13 July 1945 in Lisbon, Portugal) graduated from the and went to London on a Gulbenkian scholarship. Her varied recording career includes opera and recital from baroque to modern. Her ability to sing in European-Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese makes her a specialist in the music of those countries and composers such as , , Heitor Villa-Lobos and . She appeared in Tony Palmer's 1995 television film on Henry Purcell, "England My England". She was professor of vocal studies and French Mélodie at the Royal College of Music, London, from 1997 to 2007. She now lives in Vendée, France. She has two children, singer-songwriter Carmen Smith and author Joseph Smith. Sources Cummings, David (ed.), "Smith, Jennifer", International Who's Who in Music, Routledge, 2000, p. 602. Hyperion Records, Jennifer Smith (soprano):biography and disscography accessed 28 January 2008 Warrack, John and West, Ewan, "Smith, Jennifer", The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, Oxford University Press, 1996 (accessed online via subscription 28 January 2008) External links Official Website for Jennifer Smith, Soprano 1945 births Living people Academics of the Royal College of Music Singers from Lisbon Portuguese operatic sopranos 20th-century Portuguese women opera singers Portuguese music educators Portuguese women music educators