Jennifer Smith (soprano)

Jennifer Smith' (born in Lisbon, Portugal on 13 July, 1945) is an Portuguese soprano.

Jennifer Smith graduated from the Lisbon Conservatory of Music and came to London on a Gulbenkian scholarship. Her varied recording career includes opera and recital, from Baroque to modern. Her ability to sing in Portuguese and Brasilian makes her a specialist in the music of those countries. She appeared in Tony Palmer's television film on Henry Purcell in 1995. She is professor of vocal studies at the Royal College of Music. Because of her name and her residence in London, she is sometimes classified as an English singer.