Overview

• Inbal announced her death and called her a central figure of Mexico’s lyric art.
• Friends and cultural institutions reported she died in a Mexico City hospital following a cancer diagnosis.
• Her repertoire spanned baroque to contemporary, and she premiered Mexican operas by Carlos Chávez, Mario Lavista, Víctor Rasgado, Roberto Morales, Manuel Henríquez Romero and Hilda Paredes.
• She served as artistic subdirector of the Compañía Nacional de Ópera in 2014 and led the company from 2015 to 2017.
• Honors included the Medalla Bellas Artes in Music (2023) and the Medalla Mozart (2006), and she was the Spanish singing voice of Belle in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.