Íride Martínez

Education
Costa Rica and Europe with a.o. Mirella Freni and Elio Battaglia

Debut
Norina/Don Pasquale (Teatro dell’Opera di Roma), 1994

Ensemble Oper Köln (1995-2002): Violetta/La traviata;, Adina/ L’elisir d’amore; Giuliett/I Capuleti e Montecchi; Gilda/Rigoletto; Cleopatra/Giulio Cesare; Nannetta/Falstaff; Susanna/ Le Nozze di Figaro; Konstanze/Die Entführung aus dem Serail; Pamina/Die Zauberflöte

Highlights
Zerbinetta/Ariadne auf Naxos (Semper Oper Dresden) 1999; Sophie/Der Rosenkavalier (Semper Oper Dresden) 2000; Boris Godunov, Die Liebe der Danae en Konstanze/Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Salzburger festspiele) 2003; Lucia di Lammermoor (Deutsche Oper Berlin), 2007; La hija del cielo (Las Palmas, Gran Canaria); 1984 (Lorin Maazel) (Teatro alla Scala), 2008-2009;

Prizes
Bilbao Singing Competition, Caniglia Competition Italia; Young Artist of the Year 1998

Worked with o.a.
Lorin Mazel, Ivor Bolton, James Conlon, Sir Colin Davis, Semyon Byschkov, Valery Gergjev, Fabio Luisi, René Jacobs, Vladimir Fedosejev, Sir Charles Mackerras

Recente and future productions
Marie/La fille du regiment (Bibao), 2009; Celia/Lucio Silla (Freiburg) 2009; Norina/Don Pasquale (Royal Opera House Covent Garden London)

Íride Martínez sings the part of Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail together with Maxim Mironov as Belmonte on: 23, 26, 30 October and 2, 7, 14, 19, 23 November 2010.