“She turned married couples into lovers and bestowed happy dreams on the lonely. Some listeners shut their eyes and smiled blissfully”. (Berliner Zeitung) The dramatic range and unusually broad repertoire of Ana María Martínez sets her apart as one of today’s most sophisticated and versatile lyric sopranos, a rising star whose career already spans the world’s great opera houses and concert halls. This recording of popular soprano songs and arias is released to mark her MET début, as Micaela in Carmen. For the Naxos Milken Archive of American Jewish Music Ana María Martínez has recorded Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Naomi and Ruth (8.559404).