During the 2025-26 season at HGO, Butler Studio alumnus Reginald Smith, Jr. performs the role of Peter in Hansel and Gretel. Previously at HGO, Smith performed the title role in Falstaff (2023); Pascoe in The Wreckers (2022); Amonasro in Aida (2020); Bonze in Madame Butterfly; Speaker of the Temple, Priest, and Armored Man in outdoor performances of The Magic Flute, and Speaker in selected mainstage performances of The Magic Flute (all 2015); Dancaïre in Carmen and Marullo in Rigoletto (2014); and Blind in Die Fledermaus (2013). He appeared with the company in Giving Voice in 2020 and 2025 and gave a Live from the Cullen recital with Richard Bado for HGO Digital in 2021. In the 2024-25 season, Smith made his Baltimore Symphony Orchestra debut as Amonasro in a staged version of Aida, in addition to performing the title character Porgy in Porgy and Bess with Washington National Opera, Scarpia in Tosca at the New Orleans Opera and New Mexico Philharmonic, and Alfio in Cavalleria Rusticana with the Sacramento Philharmonic. Smith performed as a featured soloist in concerts with the New Jersey Symphony led by Xian Zhang, the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, the Memphis Symphony, and in a solo recital at the Fine Arts Center in Greenville, South Carolina. The Grammy and Emmy-winning baritone was the 2021 U.S. representative at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition and a Grand Finals winner of the 2015 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. He received a 2015 Sarah Tucker Study Grant and a 2016 Career Grant from the Sullivan Foundation.