Event Details

Sunday, May 10, 2026 3:00PM
Renée & Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall
615 Town Center Drive
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
Henry T. and Elizabeth Segerstrom Foundation Select Series

America@250 Concert

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Featured Performers

Larisa Martínez, soprano

Program

Program to be announced

Pre-concert lecture at 2pm

Join acclaimed soprano Larisa Martínez for an afternoon of Latin American classical music. Known for her radiant voice and deeply expressive artistry, Martínez brings warmth and authenticity to a program that reflects both personal roots and cultural legacy.

This program features a poignant song cycle by Narciso Figueroa, honoring Martínez’s Puerto Rican heritage, and also features vibrant and rhythmically captivating works by Alberto Ginastera and Heitor Villa-Lobos. From Ginastera’s passionate Argentine lyricism to Villa-Lobos’s lush Brazilian soundscapes, the afternoon becomes a sonic journey across Latin America’s diverse cultural landscape.

Her voice is naturally full-bodied and grounded in mezzo qualities. Her warmth and middle-voice precision is captivating. Her voice can interpret a wide range of repertoire without sounding like it fits into a particular box. She makes a path of her own by means of nuanced agility and flexibility.
Opera News

Martínez’s crystalline high notes and her nuanced dynamic changes, plus her classic beauty and total dominion of the stage, won the audience which included a full house of the island’s most informed opera mavens, performers, teachers and other cognoscenti.
San Juan Star

From her first notes, soprano Larisa Martinez' plush, dolcet sound soared to heavens, shimmering above the chorus. Her exquisitely warm, dark, timbre added a hymn-like quality to the return of the "O, Schmertz!" motif and her duet with Karanas just prior to the return of the mighty chorus, was ravishing.
Broadway World