Multiple Grammy Award winning baritone Gabriel Manro has been called “a new kind of baritone…a knock-down baritone” (SF Classical Voice) with a “striking, sinister baritone that remains strong, even and sonorous throughout the range” (Opera News). He debuted in Dead Man Walking with Frederica von Stade and has created roles in numerous contemporary and world-premiere operas and musicals: Muscovite Trader in The Ghosts of Versailles (Grammy–Best Opera Recording); Mousling in the LA Philharmonic’s Alice in Wonderland; Commentator in Wang’s Scalia/Ginsburg; Original Off-Broadway cast of Orations; Original Cast of Séance on a Wet Afternoon by Stephen Schwartz (Wicked); Original telecast and tour of A Death in the Family (Opéra Grand D’Avignon); the Computer in The Fly by Howard Shore (Lord of the Rings); Original Cast of Il Postino (Sony Classical); President Lincoln in original cast of Lincoln and Booth; original cast and recording of De Rosa’s Alice in Wonderland; Jafar in Disney’s original Zambello production of Aladdin. As a concert soloist, Manro sings at Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, the Berlin Philharmonie and most recently at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Turandot and Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder with the LA Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta. Mr. Manro is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and resides in Los Angeles with his opera directing wife, Justine Prado, and their two children.