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“As Florencia, soprano Ana María Martínez registered best: the soaring high notes and vastly extended melodic lines of Catan’s score are Martínez’s métier, and the nuances in her singing, as well as the strength…
“As Florencia, soprano Ana María Martínez registered best: the soaring high notes and vastly extended melodic lines of Catan’s score are Martínez’s métier, and the nuances in her singing, as well as the strength…
“Ana Maria Martinez was at her very best in the title role: Her solos as Florencia were rapturous and impassioned, and her middle range gorgeously colored and rich, with soaring high notes that never bordered on strain.…
“All evening long she sang with total control, employing even vocal color throughout her enormous range. Her ability to vary her sound from dramatic fortissimo to the most beautiful thin thread of silver was impressive.…
“As the opera star Florencia Grimaldi, the Puerto Rican soprano Ana María Martínez brought to the role a tone of world-weariness tempered by hope, as she returned to scene of her lover’s disappearance. Vocally, she was…
“Ana María Martínez sung an enchanting Fiordiligi. Martínez sailed through the triplets in “Come scoglio” with precision and grace, and her exquisitely shaped, deeply felt “Per pietà” was…
It was a program made for pleasure, and most pleasurable of all was Ms. Martînez’s rich, warm, disciplined instrument, a melt-in-your mouth dark-chocolate truffle – with flecks of orange zest contributed by her horn-like…