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Gabriella Reyes

With a voice described as “radiant” by The New York Times and chosen as one of the Sphinx Organization’s 2025 Medal of Excellence honourees, Nicaraguan American soprano Gabriella Reyes is one of the most exciting and dynamic artists in music today. A former member of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera, Gabriella returns to the Met in the 2024/25 season to perform the roles of Margarita Xirgu in a new production of Osvaldo Golijov’s first opera Ainadamar, and both Mimì and Musetta in Franco Zeffirelli’s classic production of La bohème. She returns to the Lyric Opera of Chicago for Musetta and will perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Nashville Symphony. This season, Gabriella also makes her eagerly awaited recital debut at Carnegie Hall with pianist Andrés Sarre for the series Nuestros sonidos: Celebrating Latin Culture in the US.

In recent seasons, Gabriella has appeared with come of the world’s finest opera companies including the Paris Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Santa Fe Opera, Washington National Opera, Atlanta Opera, and with orchestras including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Trondheim Symphony, and Philadelphia Orchestra.