American mezzo-soprano Gabrielle Beteag (pronounced Bee-tag) brings a fresh joy and commanding warmth to repertoire spanning Baroque to contemporary works. Praised as a “showstopper” by the San Francisco Chronicle, Beteag’s recent performance in the Merola Grand Finale concert was “a virtuoso display of rhythmic precision and vocal exuberance.”

A recent graduate of the Adler Fellowship at San Francisco Opera, Gabrielle returns to the company this season to sing Offred’s Mother in The Handmaid’s Tale, and to cover Ulrica in Un ballo in maschera. On the concert stage, she joins the Santa Rosa Symphony for her first Mahler Symphony No. 2 , “Resurrection”.

Ms. Beteag began the 2023/24 season appearing with the San Francisco Opera as Stimme von Oben in Die Frau ohne Schatten, an Image of Frida Kahlo in El último sueño de Frida y Diego, and the Teacher in The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs. She then traveled to Cape Town, South Africa, where she placed as a semifinalist in the 2023 Operalia World Opera Competition. She also sang Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with the San Francisco Ballet, and, during the summer, she joined Wolf Trap Opera as a Filene Artist, appearing as the mezzo-soprano soloist in Beethoven's 9th Symphony (National Symphony Orchestra), as well as Anna I in Kurt Weill's Seven Deadly Sins.

In 2025, Beteag joins MOR's production of After Life playing the role of the indomitable Gertrude Stein.