Golden Gate Opera - Marin County Opera

Gabriel Manro made his professional operatic debut as Third Inmate in Jake Heggie's ground breaking new opera Dead Man Walking for Opera Pacific with Frederica von Stade. He immediately went on to perform the role of Inquisitor in Opera Pacific's critically acclaimed production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide. His recent roles have included Sergente in La Bohème with John Mauceri's Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and Silvio in Pagliacci at the Long Beach Music Festival. With the California Opera Theater, he has sung Valentin in Faust, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro and Marcello in La Bohème. Mr. Manro made his European operatic debut in Rossini's comic opera, Il Barbiere di Siviglia as Doctor Bartolo with Corfu Opera in Greece. His operatic engagements have also included performances of Belcore in L'Elisir d'Amore, Giorgio Germont in La Traviata, Scarpia in Tosca, Guglielmo in Cosí fan Tutte, and Superintendent Budd in Albert Herring. Also a sought after soloist in Oratorio, he has appeared in the Brahms Requiem, Mozart Requiem, Bach B minor Mass, Mozart's Coronation Mass, Handel's Messiah, Orff's Carmina Burana, and Vaughan Williams' Five Mystical Songs with such arts organizations as the Coastal Valleys Symphony, San Fernando Valley Master Chorale, Los Angeles Premiere Chorale and Southern Nevada Arts Society Chorus. Equally at home in Musical Theater, he has performed numerous roles including Tony in The Most Happy Fella, Lockit in The Beggars Opera, Abner in Li'l Abner, Schroeder in You're a Good Man Charlie Brown and the Governor in Man of La Mancha.