Ana María Martínez Soprano

Grammy® Award-winner Ana María Martínez’s dramatic range distinguishes her as one of today’s most sophisticated lyric sopranos. Her career spans the world's opera houses, concert halls, recording studios and movie theatres, and she continues to engage her audiences both with her signature roles and with new and exciting debuts on stage.

Released to critical acclaim is her recently recorded solo disc, Ana María Martínez - Soprano Songs and Arias, recorded with the Prague Philharmonia conducted by Steven Mercurio on Naxos. Ms. Martínez can also be seen on the EuroArts DVD Spanish Night recorded with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Plácido Domingo. Her recollections and reflections are profiled in Latino Wisdom: Celebrity Stories of Hope, Inspiration, and Success to Recharge our Mind, Body, and Soul by Cathy Areu, published by Barricade Books. In September ’06 Martínez received the Groundbreaking Latina in Music award from the National Association of Latina Leaders.

Ana María Martínez begins the 2009-2010 season as Marguerite in Faust at Lyric Opera of Chicago, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. She also portrays the tragic Liù in Turandot at De Nederlandse Opera, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin; and sings Mimì in La Bohème with Opera de Puerto Rico, under the baton of Steven Mercurio. In the concert hall, Ms. Martínez joins Plácido Domingo for a concert in Venezuela; sings the Brahms Requiem with Jiří Bělohlávek and the BBC Symphony; takes part a special concert in Chicago’s Millennium Park with Sir Andrew Davis and the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra; essays Szymanowski’s Symphony No. 3 with the Vienna Symphony at the Musikverein; and performs opera and zarzuela arias with the National Symphony of the Dominican Republic.

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