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Gabriel Manro
Gabriel Manro made his professional operatic debut as the Third Inmate in Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking for Opera Pacific. He has created roles including the Mousling in the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Alice in Wonderland by Unsuk Chin, the Computer in LA Opera’s The Fly by film composer Howard Shore, the Chauffeur in Opera Santa Barbara’s Séance on a Wet Afternoon by Stephen Schwartz, Angry Voter in LA Opera’s Il Postino by Daniel Catan and the Commentator in the Opera Las Vegas West Coast premiere of Derrick Wang’s wildly popular Scalia/Ginsburg. He created the role of President Lincoln in Golden Gate Opera's Lincoln and Booth by John Cepelak. Off-Broadway, he led the original cast of Center for Contemporary Opera’s production of Oration by Line Tjørnhøj. On television, Manro appeared as Joel Lynch and Father Jackson in the European premiere live telecast of William Mayer’s A Death in the Family at the Hungarian National Theater and Opéra Grand D’Avignon which was voted “audience favorite” by TBS Network viewers. Manro played Jafar in Walt Disney Company’s original stage production of Aladdin directed by Francesca Zambello.
Mr. Manro made his European operatic debut as Doctor Bartolo in The Barber of Seville with Corfu Opera in Greece. His extensive repertoire and engagements have also included the roles of Bluebeard in Bluebeard’s Castle, Count Almaviva and Bartolo in The Marriage of Figaro, Guglielmo and Don Alfonso in Cosí fan tutte, the title role in Don Giovanni, Papageno in The Magic Flute, Belcore in L'elisir d'amore, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor, Giorgio Germont in La Traviata, Escamillo in Carmen and Scarpia in Tosca, among many others.
Equally at home in musical theater, he has performed numerous roles including Curly in Oklahoma!, Tony in The Most Happy Fella, the title role in Li'l Abner, Schroeder in You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, and Emile de Becque in South Pacific. 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.
Learn more at GabrielManro.com.
Mr. Manro made his European operatic debut as Doctor Bartolo in The Barber of Seville with Corfu Opera in Greece. His extensive repertoire and engagements have also included the roles of Bluebeard in Bluebeard’s Castle, Count Almaviva and Bartolo in The Marriage of Figaro, Guglielmo and Don Alfonso in Cosí fan tutte, the title role in Don Giovanni, Papageno in The Magic Flute, Belcore in L'elisir d'amore, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor, Giorgio Germont in La Traviata, Escamillo in Carmen and Scarpia in Tosca, among many others.
Equally at home in musical theater, he has performed numerous roles including Curly in Oklahoma!, Tony in The Most Happy Fella, the title role in Li'l Abner, Schroeder in You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, and Emile de Becque in South Pacific. 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.
Learn more at GabrielManro.com.