About this Artist

Multiple Grammy winner Gabriel Manro has been called “a new kind of baritone…a knock-down baritone” (SF Classical Voice). Manro made his operatic debut as Third Inmate in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking (Opera Pacific) with Frederica von Stade. He has created roles in numerous contemporary operas and musicals: Muscovite Trader in LA Opera’s The Ghosts of Versailles (Grammy for Best Opera Recording), the Mousling in the LA Phil’s Alice in Wonderland, and the Commentator in the West Coast premiere of Derrick Wang’s Scalia/Ginsburg. Additionally, he was in the original off-Broadway cast of Line Tjørnhøj’s Orations and the original cast of Séance on a Wet Afternoon by Stephen Schwartz. He portrayed Joel Lynch/Father Jackson in the European premiere telecast and tour of William Mayer’s A Death in the Family (Hungarian National Theater, Center for Contemporary Opera, Opéra Grand Avignon) and the Computer in LA Opera’s The Fly by film composer Howard Shore, directed by David Cronenberg. Manro was also in the original cast of LA Opera’s Il Postino and performed the roles of President Lincoln in Golden Gate Opera’s world premiere of Lincoln and Booth and Jafar in Disney’s original Francesca Zambello production of Aladdin. Manro is a proud citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and lives in Los Angeles with his screenwriter/opera director wife, Justine Prado, and his beautiful children Mays and Bernadette.