Date
May 31, 2025
Event Type
Concerts
Ticket Price
Starting at $38
Student and group discount available
On Sale
Fri, Feb 25
Show Description
Presented by the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts
Join Grammy Award®-winning soprano Ana María Martínez and leading Broadway Music Director and pianist Andy Einhorn in an intimate evening of storytelling and song as they explore Ana María’s rich and winding journey to becoming the artist and woman that she is today. From a childhood steeped in Cuban and Puerto Rican tradition, to her musical education at Juilliard, and then onto the greatest international opera and concert stages of the world — hear the stories, be part of the discovery, and listen to the songs that inspired Ana María’s personal story as she unveils all of the layers of who she was, who she is, and who she is still becoming.
Ana María Martínez Andy Einhorn appear as part of the Hobby Center’s new annual initiative that celebrates and supports local artists who broaden our city’s cultural fabric and embody the iconic idea that Houston is Inspired. Building on the Hobby Center’s mission to serve as a connector, convenor, and incubator, this program brings audiences and artists together through experiences that center connection and community.
Performance Schedule
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- Sat May 31, 2025 at 7:30 pm
Ana María Martínez
Grammy Award® winner and Houston, Texas resident, 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. In addition to opera, concert and recital performances, she engages in such diverse opportunities as voicing the role of opera singer Alessandra in season three of Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle, to performing in tribute to operatic legend Justino Díaz at the 44th Annual Kennedy Center Honors (CBS), to proudly representing her birthplace of Puerto Rico as an honoree and performer in the 62nd Annual Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City. She is the winner of the 15th Annual OPERA NEWS Awards, and in 2021 was a recipient of Houston Mayer Sylvester Turner’s Hispanic Heritage Awards in the Arts, and was named one of Houston’s “50 Most Influential Women of 2020-2021” by Houston Woman Magazine. Ms. Martinez is equally recognized off-stage for being a leader in the performing arts industry as an advocate and educator to the next generation of musicians, and as such 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.
Andy Einhorn
BROADWAY: Music Supervisor/Conductor: Gypsy (Audra McDonald), Hello, Dolly! (Bette Midler), Carousel (Renée Fleming), Holiday Inn. Music Director/Conductor: Woody Allen’s Bullets Over Broadway, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Brief Encounter, Sondheim on Sondheim. Music director and conductor for Audra McDonald since 2011 including two albums. TOURING Music Supervisor: Peter Pan, Sound of Music. Regional: George Street Playhouse, PaperMill Playhouse, Goodspeed Opera House, Oregon Shakespeare Festival. TV: HBO’s “Six by Sondheim,” PBS “Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy,” Academy Awards 2019, “Eat Sh*t Bob” for HBO’s LAST WEEK TONIGHT starring John Oliver. Conducting engagements include The Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony and Kansas City Symphony. Faculty: Juilliard, Aspen Music Festival, Brevard Music Festival. Rice University, Summa cum laude.
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