Ana María Martínez is a Grammy Award-winner considered to be one of the foremost sopranos of her time. Martinez hails from Puerto Rico, graduated from the Juilliard School, and has an international career that spans the world's most important opera houses and concert halls. Opera News' recent cover story declared that her "soprano harks back to the Golden Age. Her range is even, from a dusky chest-voice through a claret-colored middle and up to a radiant top, and is impressive in its quiet moments as it is at full power." Martínez will work with six SMTD singers, followed by a Q&A. This master class is a presentation of the Voice Department and UMS.