Centre Stage Artist Management is delighted to announce that baritone Gabriel Natal-Báez has joined our roster as a CSAM Emerging Artist.

Gabriel Natal-Báez is currently an Adler Fellow at San Francisco Opera, after participating in San Francisco’s Merola Opera Program in 2025.

This season, Natal-Báez performs Marcello in San Francisco Opera’s touring production of Bohème Out of the Box and Pietro in Simon Boccanegra. He also covers Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Lescaut in Manon, Paolo in Simon Boccanegra, and James in Mary Queen of Scots. On the concert stage, he joins the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, conducted by Sebastian Weigle, for The Future Is Now: Adlers in Concert at Herbst Theatre. He also returns to Puerto Rico for the traditional Christmas concert with the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Roselín Pabón, following his debut with the orchestra in 2025, and performs Orff’s Carmina Burana with Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera.

Natal-Báez is a 2026 winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. Previously, he won the Puerto Rico District of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, where he also received the La Zarzuela Prize, and went on to place third in the Gulf Coast Region. He was also a semifinalist in Houston Grand Opera’s Concert of Arias.

Natal-Báez earned his Master of Music degree at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, where he studied with internationally acclaimed soprano Ana María Martínez. Before pursuing opera professionally, he completed a bachelor’s degree in Humanities with a concentration in Painting.