Grammy Award winner Ana María Martínez graces the stages of opera houses around the globe. She began 2008 at the Opera de Bastille in Paris singing the title role in a new production of Verdi’s Luisa Miller, followed by her role of Mimi in La bohème with the Houston Grand Opera. In May she makes her debut with the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg for her first Verdi Requiem conducted by Sylvan Cambreling; and finishes the month with her debut with the Orchestre de Paris to sing Bernstein’s Kaddish Symphony. In June she returns to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel to sing Villa-Lobos and Manuel de Falla. Martinez earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Juilliard School, scored a 1995 win at Operalia, and is an alumna of the Houston Grand Opera Studio.
