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Adriana Martínez, lyric soprano, appeared most recently as Mimì in La Bohème with MIOpera in Normal, IL (Cover performance, August 2019). She had her European debut in August 2018 as Gertrude in Hänsel und Gretel at the Trentino Music Festival in Fiera di Primiero, Italy. Adriana appeared in May 2017 on tour with OperaMaya in Mexico in scenes from Turandot (Liu), Die Zauberflöte (First Lady), and Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Konstanze). In July 2017 she returned to Chicago Summer Opera in scenes from Little Women (Amy) and The Turn of the Screw (Flora).
Previous full roles include Second Lady in Die Zauberflöte with ViVaCe Vancouver Summer Opera Workshop, Suor Maria in Giordano’s Mese mariano with Miami Music Festival, Omega in Gluck’s Le Cadi Dupé with New York Lyric Opera Theater, Mrs. Gobineau in Menotti’s The Medium and the Novice in Puccini’s Suor Angelica with Chicago Summer Opera. Partial roles include Maria in West Side Story, Ortlinde in Die Walküre (Lincoln Center), Leonora in Il Trovatore, Marianne in Tartuffe, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Valencienne in The Merry Widow, and Malika in Lakmé.
Adriana has participated in several summer programs, including Music Academy International, AIMS in Graz, the Crittenden Opera Workshop and the Emerald City Opera Artist Institute, among others. Her past voice teachers include Renay Conlin, Patrick Howle, Ruth Drucker, Charles Roe, and Claudia Kennedy. She currently studies with John Koch.
An active choral singer, she has performed with Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana, with The Phoenix Symphony Chorus, with whom she appeared in Carnegie Hall in April of 2015 and in Vienna and Salzburg in June of 2017, and with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra Chorus, the Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, the Handel Choir of Baltimore, and the National Philharmonic Chorale, among others.
Born in Mexico City, Mexico, Adriana holds a Bachelor's degree in Music from the University of Charleston (WV), and a Master’s and PhD in Musicology from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. She is Assistant Professor of Music at Eureka College in Eureka, IL, where she teachers voice, music history, and music theory.
Praised for the beauty of her tone, her expressivity, command of languages, understanding of different styles, and keen musicality, Adriana is also interested in art song, musical theater, early music and contemporary repertoire.