Ana Maria Martinez is a Puerto Rican soprano who arrived on the international scene in leading roles in the last half of the 1990s.
She rose to prominence when she won the Plácido Domingo International Voice Competition Operalia 1995. Domingo supported the beginnings of her career by appearing with her in concert in Madrid, Palm Beach, and Buenos Aires. He also sang with her in a production televised on Puerto Rican television of Puccini's La Bohème, Martinez singing Mimì to Domingo's Rodolfo.
The same opera was the vehicle for her debuts in Los Angeles and in New York (City...