Over the weekend I met and conversed with renown opera singer
Ana Maria Martinez. I'm currently acting in Mozart's opera Don Giovanni - in which she is starring. I've long been a fan of her voice so it's been really fantastic listening to her in rehearsals. She signed a cd for me and I presented her with mine. As it turns out she's a fan of solo guitar! She was telling me about the latest
Sharon Isbin cd she bought and how she wanted to acquire more guitar music. I asked her about an excerpt from the book
Latino Wisdom in which she contributed details of her musical upbringing, career and inspiration. She initially rebelled against opera as a career since her mother was an opera singer. What changed her mind was a quote from a book given to her by her father. That book was by renown psychoanalyst Rollo May. In it she read
"Freedom doesn't equal rebellion". She said that phrase caused her to rethink her own rebellion and become more open to opera. She's now considered one of the world's top sopranos.
