Soprano
Grammy Award® winner soprano Ana María Martínez is one of the foremost sopranos of her generation with an international career that spans the world’s most important opera houses and concert halls. She 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 Falstaff, 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, Washington National 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. Ana María is the winner of the 15th Annual OPERA NEWS Awards, and was named Texas State Musician – Classical (2026) by the Texas State Legislature. She is the soprano soloist on “Sweet Dreams of Joy,” composed by Nicholas Pike for the documentary VIVA VERDI!, which was nominated for the 2026 Academy Award® for Best Original Song. She is an advocate and educator to the next generation of musicians and was Houston Grand Opera’s first-ever Artistic Advisor, a position she served in for five years, and is a tenured Professor of Voice at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University.