At Kennedy Center, soprano Ana María Martínez excels with pleasing, lighter songs

Why singers connect to some types of music more than others often comes down to personal taste, and how music and language sit in the voice. During the recital by soprano Ana María Martínez, presented Wednesday night by Vocal Arts D.C. at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, it was French songs and Mozart arias that were most suited to her pleasing, compact, flexible lyric soprano voice.