During the last seasons she has appeared at the Hampton Court Palace Festival as soloist of the English Chamber Orchestra, "Pagliacci" in Las Palmas and Marguerite in "Faust" -opposite G.Aragall- at the Peralada Festival, in Oviedo, an operatic programme with the City of Granada Orchestra, "Turandot" (Li��) in Montevideo and "Faust", "Goyescas" and the Beethoven��s "9th Symphony" at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. Other engagements also included "Poliuto" at the Ravenna Festival and the title role in "Esclarmonde" and "Tha��s" at both the Opera Comique and the Massenet Festival in Saint-Etienne. She sang with Josep Carreras in a series of successful concerts at the Verona Arena, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, Warsaw, Rotterdam, various German cities, the Wolf Trap in Washington D.C. (with the National Symphony Orchestra), etc. She was a guest of the Vaticano "Christmas Concert" seen on television all over the world, and she sang Alice Ford in the new production of "Falstaff" at the Hamburg State Opera. Born in Oviedo, Spain, Ana Maria Gonzalez grew up and began her career in Argentine. She studied with the famous soprano Hina Spani at the Teatro Colon's School of Music in Buenos Aires, where she was awarded the prestigious Gold Medal. Her many prizes and distinctions include the First Prize of the National Foundation for the Performing Arts. Since her debut at the Teatro Col��n as the child in "L'enfant et les sortileges", she has been acclaimed for her portrayals of Susanna, Adina, Norina, Gilda, Nannetta, Pamina amongst others. She has gradually taken on a more lyric repertoire with equal success, singing such roles as Violetta, Mim�, Musetta, Magda, Marguerite, Gounodes Juliette, Micaela, Massenete�s Manon, Menotties Amelia, Donna Elvira in "Don Giovanni" and Amelia in "Simon Boccanegra", Nedda, Antonia in "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" and, more recently, Elisabetta in " Don Carlo" and Alice Ford in "Falstaff". Her wide oratorio and concert repertoire includes the most different styles ranging from Bach's Mass in B Minor to Stravinsky's "Les Noces". Ana Mar�a Gonz�lez rose rapidly to international attention when she made her d��but with the Avignon Opera as Juliette in "Rom�o et Juliette". After her British debut as a soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra, guest appearances have taken her to the Vienna State Opera as Violetta, Hamburg and D�sseldorf/Duisburg also with "La Traviata" and "Manon", the Paris Opera ("Rom�o et Juliette" - opposite Alfredo Kraus- at the Palais Garnier), Bordeaux ("Rigoletto"), Parma, ("Don Giovanni", ""Les Contes d'Hoffmann" and "Faust" also with Kraus, recorded in video and released by the Bel Canto Society, N.Y.), Modena, Palermo ("La Boh�me"), Tivoli Festival in Copenhagen ("Faust"), Amsterdam, Madrid ("Rom�o et Juliette", "Don Giovanni" and "Les Contes d'Hoffmann"), Barcelona ("Rom�o et Juliette","Manon", "Pagliacci" and "Goyescas"), her native Oviedo ("Simon Boccanegra", etc.) La Coru�a ("La Traviata" and Liu in "Turandot"), Sevilla, Valencia, Las Palmas, Tenerife, Puerto Rico, Mexico City, Caracas, Lima, Santiago de Chile ("La Rondine"), Montevideo ("Don Carlo" and "Turandot"), etc.