Praised for his “warm tone and deep expressiveness”, David Smolokoff is a Manhattan based operatic tenor and soloist. 

David has sung with New York City Opera, Sarasota Opera, Utah Festival Opera, Light Opera of New Jersey, The Narnia Festival in Narni, Italy, and the Festival of the Agean in Athens, Greece. He sang as the tenor soloist with the Indinapolis Baroque Orchestra in Handel’s Messiah and makes regular appearances with New Jersey’s Orchestra by the Sea and The Greater Shore Concert Band. 

 Among other operatic roles, David has performed Rodolfo in La Bohème,  Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Tito in La Clemenza di Tito, Canio in i Pagliacci  and The Witch in Hansel and Gretel.

In 2025 David will debut as Edoardo in Rossini’s La Cambiale di Matrimonio with Garden State opera, Monostatos in Die Zauberflöte with Opera de Metro, and perform as a Tyler Young Artist with Opera on the James. 

Equally at home on the musical theater stage, David has portrayed several leading roles including Pippin in Pippin, Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Beast in Beauty and the Beast, and Tony in West Side Story. 

David holds degrees in music from The Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University and The Juilliard School.