“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…
“En un elenco de notable eficiencia vocal y escénica, en la puesta del Colón se destacó la soprano puertorriqueña Ana María Martínez, que administrando bien sus energías vocales y poniendo el cuerpo cuando tuvo que…