Grammy Award® winner Ana María Martínez is considered to be one of the foremost sopranos of her time. In additional to an international career that spans the world’s most important opera houses and concert halls, she joined Houston Grand Opera as their first-ever Artistic Advisor, and following a two year appointment as Artist-in-Residence at The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, in July 2021 she became a Professor in their Department of Voice. A winner of the 15th Annual OPERA NEWS Awards, she is known for her stunning portrayals of leading ladies at The Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, San Francisco Opera, Washington National Opera, Opera de Puerto Rico, Santa Fe Opera, and Dallas Opera, Opera National de Paris, Vienna Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, De Nederlandse Opera, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Glyndebourne Festival, and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, among countless others. She voiced the role of opera singer Alessandra in season three of Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle, performed in tribute to operatic legend Justino Díaz at the 44th Annual Kennedy Center Honors (CBS), and represented her birthplace of Puerto Rico as an honoree and performer in the 62nd Annual Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City. She is honored to have been a 2021 recipient of Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner’s Hispanic Heritage Award in the Arts, and to be named one of Houston’s “50 Most Influential Women of 2020-2021” by Houston Woman Magazine.