Christina
Martos
Singer, Actor, Creative
Multi-disciplinary performer Christina Martos enjoys working across genres. Opera and musical theater, comedy and drama, symphonic concerts, recitals and cabaret. At the end of the day, the storytelling is the most important element.
“With a forceful, gleaming soprano voice, Martos handles the role’s many vocal demands as she ably conveys the character’s fundamental goodness and innocence.”
-Denver Post - Annina, The Saint of Bleecker Street
“…Christina Martos gave an exquisite performance as Annina. Her voice was warm and expansive, and supple in weight and tone colour. She was always convincing as the innocent projecting the strength and peace of her convictions.”
-Opera Magazine - Annina, The Saint of Bleecker Street Central City Opera
“…fizzy, flirty and altogether delightful...”
-Washington Post - Giannetta, The Elixer of Love Washington National Opera
News
2025 New Mexico Entertainment Awards Nominee for Top Actress (In a play) - Cebollas by Leonard Madrid at the Santa Fe Playhouse.
Upcoming and Recent Performances
October 10, 2025
Santa Fe, NM
A KURT WEILL CABARET: FROM BERLIN TO BROADWAY
with CHRISTINA MARTOS AND KRISTIN DITLOW
A musical journey highlighting the extraordinary life and career of Kurt Weill. The performance begins with material from the smoky cabarets of Weill's youth in Berlin, to the chic Parisian salons, and new material after he fled Nazi Germany, and finally to the dazzling stages and success on Broadway. Experience the power of his music presented by the brilliant talent of vocalist Christina Martos and pianist Kristin Ditlow.
October 25, 2025
Cortez, CO
Canyon of the Ancients Guest Ranch
Symphony Chaco:
A Journey of the Spirit
Oct 26 - Nov 2, 2025
Santa Fe Playhouse
Role: Helen Chavez
At the National Hispanic Cultural Center Albuquerque Journal Theatre
1968. The Delano grape strike is dragging into its third year. Farmworkers in California are building solidarity that transcends race and language. Bobby Kennedy is running for president. Tricky Dick is on the radio promising discipline. Dolores Huerta is holding the movement together with one hand. With the other, she dials home, again, to say goodnight to children she hasn’t seen in weeks.
She’s not a symbol. Not yet.
She’s just doing the work.
Dolores is an opera that floats between the real and the imagined, memory and nightmare. Composer Nicolás Lell Benavides and librettist Marella Martin Koch stitch history into something fragile and feverish. There are sacred chants, electric guitar pulsations, bossa nova hallucinations.
Labor icon Dolores Huerta helped build a union out of dust and righteous anger. She walked the fields, held the line, made the calls. With César Chávez and Larry Itliong, she shaped a movement that reached the ears of presidents but never lost sight of the people bent over the vines. The work didn’t stop. It never does. That’s the cost of believing another world is possible.
¡SÍ SE PUEDE!
Commissioned and Co-produced by Opera Southwest, West Edge Opera and San Diego Opera, presented in partnership with the National Hispanic Cultural Center.
Dec 7-14, 2025
Role: Belinda (mother of Luz)
At the National Hispanic Cultural Center Albuquerque Journal Theatre
A new opera for families and children based on Rudolfo Anaya’s beloved children’s book, The Farolitos of Christmas, is a heartwarming holiday opera about love, tradition, and the quiet power of invention.
Luz’s father is away at war. Her grandfather is too sick to build the luminarias. So Luz finds a new way to light the path on Christmas Eve, one that will become tradition.
With music and libretto by Héctor Armienta (Zorro, Bless Me, Ultima) and stage direction by John de los Santos (Frida, Before Night Falls), this luminous one-act opera captures the spirit of New Mexico in winter: flickering light, faith, and family that endures.
Tickets on sale October 1st.
Recent
Doña Clementina
Luigi Boccherini’s Doña Clementina (Zarzuela) - American Premiere
Role: Cristeta
Opera Southwest - Company Debut
National Hispanic Cultural Center
Albuquerque, NM
April 6, 11, & 13, 2025
July 26-27, 2025
Santa Fe Playhouse
Role: Paloma
A new work by award-winning playwright and screenwriter Jose Rivera.
If you could trade the world you're in for another, would you? A super blue blood moon, an event far in the night — far deeper than any dream can reach — gives the Dimensionals a portal to Brooklyn. Traveling through planes, they find themselves on a basketball court among who else but a group of teens, an elderly couple, and three roommates in their 30s, all in anticipation of a lunar eclipse. What a shame it would if a cloud got in the way, leaving them with only each other’s company to share. A Lunar Rhapsody is a reflection of who we are together, who we are apart, and how interconnected it all can be.
Laughs in Spanish
Role: Estella (AEA)
Santa Fe Playhouse
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