Gabriela Herrera completed her music studies in 1992 at the Juilliard School in New York and attended mastercourses with Elly Ameling and Kurt Equiluz. She made her début at the Mexico National Opera as Violetta and also appeared as Adina in L’Elisir d’amore. After a festival engagement at Brunswick, in 1996 she joined the Stuttgart State Opera, where she has sung Papagena, Pamina, Dorina in Sarro’s Dorina e Nibbio, Mascha/Milovsor in The Queen of Spades, Amore/Valletto in L’Incoronazione di Poppea, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, Elvira in L’Italiana in Algeri, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Waltraute in Die Walküre and Tebaldo in Don Carlo. Other rôles have included Ghita in Una cosa rara, Liù in Turandot and Musetta in La Bohème, as well as Berta in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and the Fourth Maid in Elektra.