Marinette Gomez

Ryan Opera Center Ensemble

Gomez is a first-year Ryan Opera Center member in the recently created Ensemble position of Stage Director. She was a Directing Fellow at the Metropolitan Opera in 2024, and this summer will be a Young Artist Assistant Director for Glimmerglass Festival's Pagliacci. The Orlando, Florida native assisted at Rice University for Eugene Onegin in Fall 2023. Her most recent staging was for Bold City Opera's production of Puccini's Suor Angelica at St. John's Cathedral in Jacksonville, Florida. As Assistant Director for University of North Florida's opera program, she directed various opera scenes for both the 2021 UNF Opera Scenes Program and the 2020 UNF Virtual Opera Gala. Her credits there also include a double-bill of Menotti's The Telephone and The Old Maid and the Thief, Dido and Aeneas, Così fan tutte, and Die Fledermaus. Gomez worked with the Jacksonville Symphony for their staged concerts of La Bohème and The Magic Flute.