

Soprano Ana María Martínez / Pianist Kevin Murphy
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DateJuly 30, 2025
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VenueBennett Gordon Hall
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Event Starts7:30 PM
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Donor Gates4:30 PM
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Public Gates5:00 PM
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Ticket Prices$15–$60
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Reserved Seat Ticket: $15–$60
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Getting to Ravinia: Parking, Rideshare & Train
Free Parking Onsite • Free Metra UP-N Train
Park in the South Parking Lot at 201 St. Johns Ave. The lot opens at the listed “Public Gates” time.
Park and Ride shuttles are not in service for this event, and no other on-site parking lots are open.
Alert your driver: Uber, Lyft, and other car services must use one of the following parking lots to drop off and pick up guests.
- South Parking Lot (201 St. Johns Ave)
- Braeside Train Station (10 N. St. Johns Ave) — ¼ mile walk from Ravinia
- No drop-offs or pick-ups are allowed on public streets. If Highland Park Police or Ravinia staff redirect traffic, please follow those instructions.
Ride the Metra Union Pacific North Line train to and from our main entrance for free with your Ravinia ticket.
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Views of the Stage
Bennett Gordon Hall is an indoor venue. The stage is not visible from any location on the Lawn, nor is audio from the performance broadcast to the Lawn.
This performance has been moved to Bennett Gordon Hall
All Martin Theatre and Lawn tickets have been automatically exchanged for reserved seats in Bennett Gordon Hall.
The performance will not be broadcast to the Lawn; all Wintrust Chair & Table rentals have been refunded to the original payment method.
Free parking is available in the South Parking Lot at 201 St. Johns Ave; no other on-site parking will be open.
Contact the box office with any questions or to make alternate arrangements with your tickets.
About the Performance
Grammy-winning soprano Ana María Martínez, celebrated for her “poignant emotional intensity” (Chicago Tonight), brings her luminous artistry to an evening of classical song. Joined by Kevin Murphy, esteemed pianist and artistic director of the Steans Music Institute Singers Program, Martínez explores this deeply expressive genre, where poetry and music intertwine to create vivid, emotionally charged microdramas.
The singer highlights the music of fellow Puerto Ricans Héctor Campos Parsi, an accomplished poet who set his own odes to sky and water to song; Monsita Ferrer, the prolific writer of waltz-like danzas; and Rafael Hernández Marín, whose multi-instrumental talents helped bring jazz to Europe and gave Puerto Rico an unofficial national anthem (“Preciosa”). Martínez also performs the famed song cycles of Spaniards Manuel de Falla (Siete canciones populares españolas) and Joaquín Turína (Poema en forma de canciones), and the tragic theatrical aria “Maria la O” by Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona.
Program
Manuel de Falla: Siete canciones populares españolas
Héctor Campos Parsi: Canciones de Cielo y Agua
Joaquín Turina: Poema en forma de canciones, op. 19
–Intermission–
Monsita Ferrer: Amanecer
Ernesto Lecuona: Romanza from María la O
Rafael Hernández Marín: “Capullito de Alelí”
Rafael Hernández Marín: “Preciosa”