THE 15TH ANNUAL OPERA NEWS AWARDS
Our editors offer tributes to this year’s class of OPERA NEWS Award winners, who will be honored at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan on April 5, 2020. Illustration by Ben Kirchner Opera News
Our editors offer tributes to this year’s class of OPERA NEWS Award winners, who will be honored at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan on April 5, 2020. Illustration by Ben Kirchner Opera News
“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.…
Revista Mujer “When you see her on stage, you feel that she is a true star: disciplined, impeccably prepared, professional in every sense of the word and thoroughly dedicated to each of her interpretations. But when I…
Houstonia Ana María Martínez Returns to HGO to Lead Florencia en el Amazonas.The longtime Houstonian graduates to the title role in this Spanish-language opera. “Martínez has the type of down-to-earth and…
“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.…