The Chilean mezzo-soprano Gabriela Gómez made her debut in the title role of Carmen by Georges Bizet at the opera festival Junge Oper Schloss Weikersheim in July 2021. She has since reprised this iconic role in several international productions, including during the 2024/25 season at the Mittelsächsisches Theater in Freiberg, Germany, and in August 2025 in Concepción, Chile, under the musical direction of Gaetano Lo Coco. In 2023, she also appeared as Mercedes in Carmen and Maddalena in Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago, the National Opera of Chile.

In December 2022, she performed the role of Hänsel in Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel in Grünstadt and Bad Dürkheim. Her previous operatic roles include Gertrude in Roméo et Juliette by Charles Gounod, the Emperor of the Moon (Kaiser des Mondes) in Joseph Haydn’s Die Welt auf dem Monde, Second Woman and Sorceress in Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, and Stubenmädchen in Reigen by Philippe Boesmans.

She has also appeared as a soloist in major sacred and symphonic-vocal works, including Mozart’s Coronation Mass, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Handel’s Messiah, and Johann Sebastian Bach’s cantata Actus Tragicus. During the 2024/25 season, she additionally made her debut as Second Converse at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, Germany.

Internationally, Gabriela Gómez has performed not only in her native Chile and Germany, but also in Brazil, France, and Poland. In 2021, she was a soloist with the Baden-Baden Philharmonic, performing Mozart’s concert aria “Chi’io mi scordi di te?”. In September 2023, she gave her first solo recital at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., USA.

She has enjoyed success in numerous international competitions. In September 2022, she won First Prize at the Mujer en las Artes competition in Chile. In April 2022, she reached the semifinals of the Ferruccio Tagliavini Competition in Austria, chaired by Fiorenza Cossotto. She was a finalist at the Aslico per giovani cantanti lirici competition in Como, Italy (2016), and at the Vox Mutinae Nicolaj Ghiaurov International Singing Competition in Modena, Italy (2022). In 2021, she was invited to participate in the prestigious Tenor Viñas Competition in Barcelona, Spain. She was also awarded a scholarship from the German Federal National Scholarship Programme and took part in the Mozart Gala with the Mannheim Orchestra.

Committed to the continuous refinement of her artistry, she has participated in masterclasses with Dale Fundling, Javier Camarena, Margreet Honig, Marcel Boone, Snežana Stamenković, Ulrike Sonntag, Helmut Rilling, Carmen Solís, Gino Quilico, Alex Klein, Gonzalo Simonetti, and Marcela de Loa.

In January 2022, Gabriela Gómez completed her Concert Examination (Konzertexamen) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Mannheim under the guidance of Professor Stephanie Krahnenfeld, with whom she had studied since 2018. She had previously earned her Master’s degree at the same institution in 2020. She began her vocal studies with María Soledad Díaz at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and with José Quilapi at the University of Valparaíso.