Overview

• Mexico’s national arts institute INBAL announced her death and described her as a key figure with repertoire spanning opera, oratorio, chamber, Renaissance and contemporary music performed across Europe, the Americas, Africa and the Middle East.
• Excélsior reported she died in Mexico City at 64 from cancer, citing friends and cultural institutions.
• Tributes followed from leading musicians, including National Symphony director Ludwig Carrasco, conductor Iván López Reynoso, critic Lázaro Azar and former INBA music official Eduardo Soto Millán.
• Her honors included the Medalla Bellas Artes in Música, the Medalla Mozart and the FAOT’s Medalla Alfonso Ortiz Tirado, with differing reports on the year she received the Bellas Artes distinction.
• She broadened her cultural reach as the Spanish singing voice of Belle in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and as a mentor to younger singers.