Martha Marquez

Mezzo-soprano from San Juan (Puerto Rico); studied at the Juilliard School in New York and with Tito Gobbi in Florence. She received her first engagement at the Saarländisches Staatstheater in Saarbrücken; in 1984 she became a member of the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, which named her Kammersängerin in 1994. There she sang lyric mezzo-soprano roles such as Cherubino, Dorabella, Ramiro and Idamante in Mozart and Rosina, Angelina and Isabella in Rossini and the title role in the world premiere of Giselher Klebe’s opera “Gervaise Macquart”. Guest engagements took her to the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Tokyo and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. On the album Carl Reinecke: Complete Children’s Songs (Vol. 1) (2001) she sings 19 songs as duets with the soprano Caroline Merz and the pianist Thomas Leander.