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With a voice described as “lusciously-colored” by Opera News and chosen as one of WQXR’s ‘20 for 20’ Artists to Watch, Nicaraguan American soprano Gabriella Reyes is one of the most exciting artists in music today. A former member of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera, Ms. Reyes returns to the Met in the 2023 – 2024 season to perform the roles of Rosalba in a new production of Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and Liù in Turandot. She also makes her role debut as Nedda in Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and revisits the roles of Mimì in La bohème with the Atlanta Opera. Concert work includes a return to the role of Marzelline in Fidelio with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, both in LA, and on tour in Europe with stops including at the Liceu in Barcelona, the Philharmonie de Paris, and to the Barbican in London. 

The 2023 – 23 saw Ms. Reyes make a number of acclaimed debuts including with the Glyndebourne Festival as Mimì in La bohème, Semperoper Dresden as Musetta in La bohème, Washington National Opera as Mimì in La bohème, and at Detroit Opera as Margarita Xirgu in Golijov’s Ainadamar. On the concert stage, Ms. Reyes performed Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with both San Francisco Symphony and Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, and Vaughan Williams’ Dona nobis pacem with the New York Choral Society. 

Highlights of previous seasons include multiple appearances at the Metropolitan Opera including as Liù in Turandot, First Lady in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Nella in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Musetta in La bohème and the High Priestess in Aida. She has also appeared as Cio-Cio San in Seven Deaths of Maria Callas at Opéra national de Paris, Rosalba in Florencia en los Amazonas at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Musetta in La bohème at the Santa Fe Opera. 

In concert, Ms. Reyes appears frequently with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel in roles including Marzelline in Fidelio, Bachianas Brasileiras, and excerpts from Die Zauberflöte, alongside appearances as a soloist with the New York Choral Society, and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. She also appeared with the Jacksonville Symphony as Musetta in La bohème, the Montclair Orchestra and David Chan in Behzad Ranjbaran’s Songs of Eternity, and with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in a program of Mozart. 

Named a 2019 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist by the Metropolitan Opera, Ms. Reyes was also a recipient of a Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation in 2018, and was also a grand finalist in the 2017 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory.