{"id":13267,"date":"2026-11-12T15:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T14:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centrestagemanagement.com\/?p=13267"},"modified":"2026-11-12T15:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T14:02:19","slug":"gabriel-natal-baez-willkommen-bei-csam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centrestagemanagement.com\/en\/news\/gabriel-natal-baez-willkommen-bei-csam\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabriel Natal-B\u00e1ez: Welcome to CSAM!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Centre Stage Artist Management is delighted to announce that baritone Gabriel Natal-B\u00e1ez has joined our roster as a <em>CSAM Emerging Artist<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Natal-B\u00e1ez is currently an Adler Fellow at San Francisco Opera, after participating in San Francisco\u2019s Merola Opera Program in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>This season, Natal-B\u00e1ez performs Marcello in San Francisco Opera\u2019s touring production of <strong><em>Boh\u00e8me Out of the Box<\/em><\/strong> and Pietro in <strong><em>Simon Boccanegra<\/em><\/strong>. He also covers Count Almaviva in <strong><em>Le nozze di Figaro<\/em><\/strong>, Lescaut in <strong><em>Manon<\/em><\/strong>, Paolo in <strong><em>Simon Boccanegra<\/em><\/strong>, and James in <strong><em>Mary Queen of Scots<\/em><\/strong>. On the concert stage, he joins the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, conducted by Sebastian Weigle, for <strong><em>The Future Is Now: Adlers in Concert<\/em><\/strong> at Herbst Theatre. He also returns to Puerto Rico for the traditional Christmas concert with the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Rosel\u00edn Pab\u00f3n, following his debut with the orchestra in 2025, and performs Orff\u2019s <strong><em>Carmina Burana<\/em><\/strong> with Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera.<\/p>\n<p>Natal-B\u00e1ez 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\u2019s\u00a0<em>Concert of Arias<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Natal-B\u00e1ez earned his Master of Music degree at Rice University\u2019s Shepherd School of Music, where he studied with internationally acclaimed soprano Ana Mar\u00eda Mart\u00ednez. Before pursuing opera professionally, he completed a bachelor\u2019s degree in Humanities with a concentration in Painting.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centre Stage Artist Management is delighted to announce that baritone Gabriel Natal-B\u00e1ez has joined our roster as a CSAM Emerging Artist.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Natal-B\u00e1ez is currently an Adler Fellow at San Francisco Opera, after participating in San Francisco\u2019s Merola Opera Program in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>This season, Natal-B\u00e1ez performs Marcello in San Francisco Opera\u2019s touring production of Boh\u00e8me 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 Rosel\u00edn Pab\u00f3n, following his debut with the orchestra in 2025, and performs Orff\u2019s Carmina Burana with Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gabriel-natal-baez","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centrestagemanagement.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centrestagemanagement.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centrestagemanagement.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centrestagemanagement.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centrestagemanagement.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/centrestagemanagement.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13269,"href":"https:\/\/centrestagemanagement.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13267\/revisions\/13269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centrestagemanagement.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centrestagemanagement.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centrestagemanagement.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centrestagemanagement.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}