Imagine finding your voice...in an opera house! On Sing LOUDER, host Jake Heggie talks with great artists about the high wire act of life an opera singer.

Ana María Martínez is one of the world’s foremost sopranos. She regularly stars in beloved operas like Madama Butterfly, Rusalka, and Otello, and performs everywhere from the San Francisco Opera to the White House and the World Cup. In this episode, Ana María shares her journey from musical theater to opera, and the spiritual connection she has to music and her voice.

You can find Ana María at anamariamartinez.com and @anamariamartinezsoprano on Facebook.

Featured Music:

• Jake Heggie: “Some Times of Day” from The Best Time of the Day
• Giacomo Puccini: “Un bel dí” from Madama Butterfly, with the Metropolitan Opera, led by Karel Mark Chichon
• Ernesto Lecuona: “María la O” with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, led by Jesús López Cobos
• Antonín Dvořák: ”Song to the Moon" from Rusalka, performed with the Glyndebourne Chorus and the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the 2009 Glyndebourne Festival, led by Jiří Bělohlávek
• Jonathan Barlow: “Cinder”

Producer: Emily Shaw

Remote Recording Assistance: Seira McCarthy

Mixing: Marisa Ewing

Additional Recording: George S. Rosenthal (The Complex Recording Studio)

Executive Producer: Bob Ellis

Photo by Svetlana Pasedko

Sing LOUDER is supported by a non-profit LLC promoting public education about the art of singing. Special thanks to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.