{"id":786,"date":"2012-02-08T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/02\/the-journey-of-a-soprano.html"},"modified":"2012-02-08T10:18:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T18:18:00","slug":"the-journey-of-a-soprano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/02\/the-journey-of-a-soprano.html","title":{"rendered":"The Journey of a Soprano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-p41j1bS2pS8\/TzK8P-h6h8I\/AAAAAAAABQg\/QIZkVOMVUNg\/s1600\/start.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"199\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-p41j1bS2pS8\/TzK8P-h6h8I\/AAAAAAAABQg\/QIZkVOMVUNg\/s320\/start.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a>THIS week my Influences column looks at opera soprano <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anamariamartinez.com\/\">Ana Maria Martinez<\/a>, who started out as a <i>West Side Story<\/i> loving kid in Puerto Rico and became a star who sings all over the world. (She&#8217;s also won a Latin Grammy and been dubbed &#8220;the most beautiful voice in Latin America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/culturemonster\/2012\/02\/influences-soprano-ana-maria-martinez.html\">HERE<\/a> is my conversation with Martinez, who had a fortuitous early meeting with Placido Domingo, who would go on to become a mentor of sorts. <\/p>\n<p>She sings the female lead in Verdi&#8217;s <i>Simon Boccanegra<\/i>, which goes up at Los Angeles Opera on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS week my Influences column looks at opera soprano Ana Maria Martinez, who started out as a West Side Story loving kid in Puerto Rico and became a star who sings all over the world. (She&#8217;s also won a Latin Grammy and been dubbed &#8220;the most beautiful voice in Latin America.&#8221; HERE is my conversation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[153,30,53],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-la-opera","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"category-opera","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}