Soprano sensation Ana Maria Martinez stars in Houston Grand Opera's lyric fairy tale
The finest of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak's 10 operas, the "lyric fairy tale" - as he and librettist Jaroslav Kvapil described it - has been a favorite with audiences in the composer's homeland since it premiered in Prague in 1901. Glyndebourne Festival Opera's 2009 production, directed by English theater phenom Melly Still ("Coram Boy") and starring soprano sensation Ana Maria Martinez, has heralded the greatest …