About this Artist

Multiple Grammy Award winning baritone Gabriel Manro has been called “a new kind of baritone...a knock-down baritone.” —SF Classical Voice. Mr. Manro made his operatic debut as Third Inmate in Heggie's Dead Man Walking (Opera Pacific) with Frederica von Stade. Manro has created roles in numerous contemporary and world-premiere operas and musicals: Muscovite Trader in LA Opera’s The Ghosts of Versailles (Grammy--Best Opera Recording); the Mousling in the LA Philharmonic’s Alice in Wonderland; the Commentator in the West Coast Premiere of Derrick Wang’s Scalia/Ginsburg; Original Off-Broadway cast of Line Tjørnhøj’s Orations; Original Cast of Séance on a Wet Afternoon by Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Godspell); Joel Lynch/Father Jackson in the European premiere telecast and tour of Mayer’s: A Death in the Family (Hungarian National Theater, Center for Contemporary Opera, Opéra Grand D’Avignon); the Computer in LA Opera’s The Fly by film composer Howard Shore (Lord of the Rings) directed by David Cronenberg; Original Cast of LA Opera’s Il Postino (Sony Classical DVD); President Lincoln in Golden Gate Opera's world-premiere: Lincoln and Booth; Jafar in Walt Disney Company’s original Francesca Zambello production of Aladdin. Mr. Manro is a proud citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and resides in Los Angeles with his screenwriter/opera directing wife, Justine Prado, and his beautiful children, Mays and Bernadette. 2023/24 highlights include Manro's performances of: Scarpia in a German National Tour of Tosca, the Knight/Walrus in the world premiere of Brooke De Rosa’s Alice in Wonderland, Timur in Turandot for the Puccini Centennial Celebration at Walt Disney Concert Hall, bass soloist in the Dvořák Te Deum at Carnegie Hall, and Alfio in the Berlin Philharmonie’s production of Cavalleria Rusticana.