Maria Martinez

Norton Museum Of Art Welcomes Dr. Regina Palm As Harold And Anne Berkley Smith Senior Curator Of Modern Art

Dr. Regina Palm has been appointed as the Senior Curator of Modern Art at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, starting September 30, 2024.

Detroit Opera Reveals 2024-25 Resident Artist Lineup

After an international search, Detroit Opera has revealed the five singers who will train in Detroit Opera's Resident Artist Program during the 2024–25 season.

SEASONS: A New Musical Song Cycle to Make San Diego Debut At Oceanside Theatre Company

Seasons: A New Musical Song Cycle, written and directed by Tyler Tafolla, makes its San Diego debut at Oceanside Theatre Company from December 8-10. Don't miss this celebration of the changing seasons of life.

Review: Splendid Singing, Erratic Direction Mark the Met's New DON GIOVANNI from Van Hove

While I’ve always been bothered by the cruelties and misogyny of the main character, Mozart’s DON GIOVANNI has (musically) been my favorite of the composer’s operas, though either casting or design has been a regular issue in bringing off the work at its best. Happily, the Met’s new production by Belgian provocateur Ivo van Hove is a success for me, with a cast filled with wonderful singers--and the Met orchestra and chorus sounding great under debutante Nathalie Stutzmann.

Robin Roberts, Andrea Mitchell & Loreen Arbus Among Honorees For The Women's Media Awards On November 17

Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem - the Co-Founders of The WOMEN'S MEDIA CENTER - announce the honorees for the 2022 Women's Media Awards, to be held on Thursday, November 17th, at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City.

BWW Review: COSÍ FAN TUTTE at The Kennedy Center

Washington National Opera's take on Mozart's 1790 rom-com, 'Cosí fan tutte' is a delightful escape.

CHOCOBAR CORTES-Popular Caribbean Chocolate Restaurant Opens in the South Bronx

Chocobar Cortés, the restaurant brand of Chocolate Cortés, a 92-year old family-owned Puerto Rican and Dominican chocolate manufacturing company known for its rich hot chocolate, is a dining and cultural experience that celebrates the company’s Caribbean chocolate tradition, its culture, and the delicious flavors of the Caribbean.

Spencer Theater Receives 2021 Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Art Recipient

Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham recently announced the artists and major contributors to the arts who will receive the 2021 Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts.

BWW Feature: SAN DIEGO'S CLASSICAL MUSIC SCENE

San Diego’s classical music scene coped with the COVID-19 invasion by trading shuttered concert halls for parking lots and online media. Appreciative bravos and bravas were replaced by either honking horns, flashing headlights or painful silence. The city’s Mainly Mozart was an early adopter of drive-in performances. Its first was in July of last year with an audience of 150 vehicles voicing raucous automotive approval for San Diego Symphony Concertmaster Jeff Thayer and seven musicians from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, including Concertmaster Martin Chalifour. The musicians, delighted to be playing in person under any circumstances, delivered lively versions of an early Mozart divertimento and the Mendelssohn octet.

BWW Interview: Michael Chioldi of TOSCA at St. Paul's Cathedral

The New York City-based award-winning baritone and Pittsburgh, PA, native specializes in dramatic roles of Verdi, Puccini, and Strauss

Norton Museum of Art Announces 'For the Record: Celebrating Art by Women'

On view June 11 through October 3, For the Record features work by Emma Amos, Teresita Fernández, Helen Frankenthaler, Gertrude Käsebier, Käthe Kollwitz, Maria Martinez, Mariko Mori, Alison Saar, Mary Sibande, and Carrie Mae Weems, among others.

Pérez Art Museum Miami Announces THE ARTIST AS POEM: Selections from PAMM's Collection

Pérez Art Museum Miami has announced The Artist as Poet: Selections from PAMM's Collection, a multi-media group exhibition of rarely-seen works from PAMM's extensive permanent collection that addresses Surrealism, the subconscious, and poetic language in contemporary art, opening March 25, 2021. Spanning ten decades between 1917 and 2017, the works represent how language––specifically poetry––is used in contemporary art, while shedding light on Surrealism's profound influence.

BWW Feature: ONLINE VIRTUAL OPERA TOUR at Home Computer Screens

This holiday week the Virtual Opera Tour’s Magic Opera Flying Carpet is making its first stop at Opera San Jose for their magnificent online performance of Three Decembers. It costs $40 to watch on demand.The price is a bit steep, but the story is affecting, the music is fabulous and the performances are riveting. 

BWW Review: PASI�"N LATINA at Home Computer Screens

On Sunday afternoon, December 12, 2020, well known operatic soprano Ana Maria Martinez hosted a concert of song from many parts of the world where Spanish is spoken. The singers, from Spanish speaking backgrounds, were at one time or are currently members of the young artist program at Lyric Opera of Chicago.

The Spreckels Organ Society Presents Holiday Concert Webcast Series For 2020's Unusual Pandemic Celebration

The Spreckels Organ Society and San Diego Civic Organist Raúl Prieto Ramírez announce an enchanting series of holiday webcast concerts direct from Balboa Park during the pandemic holidays 2020. 

BWW Review: SAN DIEGO OPERA'S LA BOHEME at Pechanga Arena Parking Lot

A connoisseur's bravos replaced by honkin' horns and flashin' headlights? Puccini's La bohème staged in a parking lot? Such is opera performance in an age of COVID-19. A sold-out fleet of 450 cars contained opera-starved San Diegans who showed their appreciation of the performance in ways never imagined by the composer or previously casts. The intrepid automotive adventurers were rewarded with warm, sometimes thrilling voices thanks to the daring initiative that salvaged a production originally planned for the San Diego Civic Center stage. Quite a feat given the challenge of new outdoor staging and libretto revisions required for social distancing among the performers.

VIDEO: Teatro Colon Presents Streaming Production of RUSALKA

Teatro Colon recently streamed Rusalka, a Dvorák Opera, with Ana Maria Martinez, Dmitry Golovnin, Ante Jerkunica, and more.

San Diego Symphony's Rafael Payare and Soprano Ana Maria Martinez Join San Diego Opera's Drive-In LA BOHEME

San Diego Opera has announced cast changes for its ground-breaking live, drive-in performances of La bohème at the Pechanga Arena San Diego parking lot.

BWW Feature: ONLINE OPERA VIRTUAL TOUR September 26-October 3 at Home Computer Screens

On the Los Angeles Opera website this week, soprano Sarah Vautour, together with pianists Steven Blier and Jeremy Frank, offer a recital of cabaret classics for her a?oeLiving Room Recital.a?? San Francisco opera notes that one of their Merola Opera Programa??s illustrious alumni, baritone Lucas Meachem (2003), opens Merolaa??s Virtual Recital Series on Sept. 27 at 4 p.m. PDT, with a?oeI Left My Aria in San Francisco.

BWW Feature: ONLINE OPERA VIRTUAL TOUR AUG 29-SEPT 5 at Home Computer Screens

This week on the Los Angeles Opera website soprano Ana María Martínez performs the famous 'Song to the Moon' from Antonín Dvořák's Rusalka, along with a selection of captivating Spanish songs. They include a?oeLa Peteneraa?? by Federico Moreno-Torroba, the a?oePoema en Forma de Cancionesa?? by Joaquín Turina, and a?oeMuñequita Lindaa?? by María Grever.