Roy Cornelius Smith is an American operatic tenor, from Big Stone Gap, Virginia.
Smith 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 Métropolitain du Grand Montréal and with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Smith has a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the American Conservatory of Music, and Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Tennessee.