In the 2021/22 season, Echols was featured at the Metropolitan Opera both as Clara in Porgy and Bess and as Noemie in the Met’s family adaptation of Massenet’s Cendrillon. In the 2022/23 season, she returns to LA Opera as Julie in Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’ Omar, debuts the role of Juliette in Roméo et Juliette with Opera San Antonio, and makes her long-awaited return to the Kennedy Center reprising the role of Musetta in La Bohème with Washington National Opera. She also appeared with the Montclair Orchestra and David Chan in Behzad Ranjbaran’s Songs of Eternity and with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in a program of Mozart. Gabriella also made her highly acclaimed Santa Fe Opera debut in the summer of 2019 as Musetta in La bohème. In concert, previous seasons also include appearances in Die Zauberflöte (excerpts) and Bachianas Brasileiras with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, led by Gustavo Dudamel, alongside appearances as a soloist with the New York Choral Society, and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s Symphony No. Highlights of previous seasons include the roles of Liù in Turandot, First Lady in The Magic Flute, Nella in Gianna Schicchi and the High Priestess in Aida for the Metropolitan Opera, the latter of which was described as “hair-raising” by the New York Classical Review. In concert, she appears with the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Marzelline in Fidelio and Musetta in La bohème with the Jacksonville Symphony.

She also makes her Paris Opera debut, appearing as Cio-Cio San in Seven Deaths of Maria Callas before debuting with the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Rosalba in Florencia en los Amazonas, and with Glyndebourne this summer for her role debut as Mimì in La bohème.

Her highly popular Off-Campus series has appeared on multiple bestsellers lists and will release in over twenty countries worldwide.A former member of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera, Gabriella returns to the Met this 2021/22 season as both Liu in Turandot and Musetta in La bohème. She has had multiple titles on the USA Today, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal bestsellers lists.

She has published books with Harlequin Enterprises, New American Library, Berkley, and Entangled Publishing. Romance Romantic suspense Young Adult New AdultĮlle Kennedy is a Canadian bestselling author of contemporary romance and romantic suspense.

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