GRAMMY-Award winning soprano Ana María Martínez is known for her stunning
portrayals of the title roles of Rusalka, Carmen, and Florencia in Florencia en el
Amazonas, as well as Mimi in La Bohème, Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, Elisabetta
in Don Carlo, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Fiordiligi and Despina in Cosi fan Tutte,
Tatyana in Eugene Onegin, Nedda in Pagliacci, Liù in Turandot, Marguerite in Faust,
Alice Ford in Falstaf, Desdemona in Otello, and Amelia in Simon Boccanegra, among
countless others. These roles have taken her to the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera
of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, San Francisco Opera, Opera
de Puerto Rico, and Santa Fe Opera, as well as to Opera National de Paris, Royal
Opera House Covent Garden, Vienna Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, the Dutch
National Opera, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, and the Glyndebourne Festival, among
many others. In addition to opera, concert and recital performances, Ms. Martínez is
also a leader off-stage and was Houston Grand Opera’s first-ever Artistic Advisor, a
position she served in for five years, and is a Professor of Voice at the Shepherd
School of Music at Rice University.
