Gabriela Gómez

Biography

The mezzo-soprano Gabriela Gómez has developed an international career between Chile,her native country and Germany, where she is based.

Known for her warm, expressive timbre and remarkable versatility, she combines lyrical sensitivity with dramatic intensity and a strong sense of character allowing her to perform roles such as the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos, Sesto in La clemenza di Tito, the title role of Carmen, Charlotte in Werther, Leonora in La Favorita, and Fenena in Nabucco.

Carmen has become an important role in her repertoire. She has performed this title role at the Mittelsächsisches Theater, the Junge Oper Schloss Weikersheim and in the Teatro Universidad de Concepción. In October 2026, she will return to play this role in her hometown Talca, Chile.

In addition her operatic repertoire includes 2nd Conversa in Suor Angelica and 2nd Verkäuferin in Der Silbersee, both at the Nationaltheater Mannheim; Maddalena in
Rigoletto, Mercedes in Carmen, and Marchesa Melibea in Il viaggio a Reims at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago; Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel in Bad Dürkheim and Grünstadt; Gertrude in Roméo et Juliette at the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern; Sorceress and Second Woman in Dido and Aeneas at the Saalbau in Neustadt an der Weinstraße; Das Stubenmädchen in Reigen at the Wilhelma Theater Stuttgart; and Moppel in Die Welt auf dem Monde at the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern.

Gabriela was awarded first prize in the Woman in the Arts competition in Chile which led to an invitation to give a solo recital at the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C. She has also been finalist in the AsLiCo per Giovani Cantanti Lirici competition and in the Concorso Internazionale di Canto Lirico Vox Mutinae Nicolaj Ghiaurov in Modena, in the Ferruccio Tagliavini competition in Austria, chaired by Fiorenza Cossotto.

Gabriela Gómez studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She has furthered her artistic development through masterclasses with Dale Fundling, Javier Camarena, Margreet Honig, and Marcel Boone.