Biography
Soprano
Cara Gabrielson
Cara Gabrielson was a 2020 national semifinalist in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition and made her San Francisco Symphony debut in 2018 in J.S. Bach’s Magnificat. In 2022 she joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera in Idomeneo and returned to the SF Symphony in Orff’s Carmina burana and Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy. This season she sings Lucy in Fellow Travelers with Opera Parallèle and covers the title role in Florencia en el Amazonas with Opera San Jose.
As a solo recitalist, Ms. Gabrielson has sung at the Oregon Bach Festival and Portland Opera Guild. In 2019–20 she joined the Opera Idaho Emerging Artists Program to perform the title role in Acis and Galatea, Poussette in Manon, and Sister Catherine in Dead Man Walking. In 2018 she was a singer at the Georg Solti Accademia di Bel Canto and a fellow at the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Festival, where she soloed in Bach’s St. John Passion and Purcell’s The Fairy Queen. Ms. Gabrielson earned bachelor and master of music degrees from San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She is an alumna of Houston Grand Opera’s Young Artists Vocal Academy and the Opera Saratoga Young Artist Program.
As a solo recitalist, Ms. Gabrielson has sung at the Oregon Bach Festival and Portland Opera Guild. In 2019–20 she joined the Opera Idaho Emerging Artists Program to perform the title role in Acis and Galatea, Poussette in Manon, and Sister Catherine in Dead Man Walking. In 2018 she was a singer at the Georg Solti Accademia di Bel Canto and a fellow at the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Festival, where she soloed in Bach’s St. John Passion and Purcell’s The Fairy Queen. Ms. Gabrielson earned bachelor and master of music degrees from San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She is an alumna of Houston Grand Opera’s Young Artists Vocal Academy and the Opera Saratoga Young Artist Program.