Martina Arroyo

Introduction

Martin was born in New York (New York City), in a family of Puerto Rican Demetrio Arroyo (Demetrio Arroyo) and his wife, dark-skinned native of Charleston, South Carolina (Charleston, South Carolina), Washington, Lucille (Lucille Washington). Demetrio was a mechanic at the local shipyards, and pretty well earned - which made it possible to deal with children Lucille. The funds allowed acquainting children with extensive cultural stratum of New York life, the family regularly attended museum exhibitions, concerts and theatrical performances (Arnove, 36-55). In the early 40's Martin several times led to the Broadway show, that's when the girl first became interested in acting career. Mother of the choice of more than girls like it, she gave her daughter in ballet school, and personally taught her a few piano lessons. In favor of the girl went and religious preferences of the family - in the local Baptist church she first tried her hand as a chorus girl and her brother, by the way, went even further, becoming a Baptist minister.

After high school, Arroyo went to college Hunter (Hunter College), from which he graduated at age 19 with a degree in Romance languages. In college, Martin has continued to study and vocals - as a kind of hobby, she visited a local opera workshop. It was at this workshop she met Josef Turnau (Joseph Turnau); he quickly realized that his new friend has a great future and asked Arroyo to do the singing professionally. Like any natural gift, a talent singing Martina was in need of resurfacing; c by Turnau girl was admitted to the disciples to the Marina Gurevich (Marinka Gurewich). How long their cooperation did not last - Arroyo belonged to the studies seriously enough, and Gurevich decided that is no longer willing to spend their time in vain (Davis, 96-101). Ironically, it was parting with Marinka Gurevich and has become a stimulus that was missing Martin. Arroyo finally looked inside myself and realized that singing for her has already ceased to be just a hobby and it became something much more serious. Break into a major opera house in those days was not easy - especially for dark-skinned performer, Martin, however, this time set up was more than determined.

Discussion

Martina Arroyo, is one of the great forgotten among the sopranos of the second half of the twentieth century, marginalized by the record companies-not as Gencer - especially Verdi, inevitably have to resort to pirate records to listen to this today is not much of a problem as it was twenty years ago, such is the proliferation of live recordings today. These, when they have a good sound, are usually preferable to study. Fortunately much Arroyo attended the Met and there are numerous testimonies with good sound of their performances in this theater.

There are many points in common with Leotyne Price Arroyo, both American, black and coincident with a repertoire and a voice and singing style in many ways similar, although it seems that the ring Price is somewhat brighter ...