La serva padrona
Born in Mexico City, she studied at Mexico's National Conservatory of Music and the National School of Music at the National Autonomous University of Mexico under the baritone David Silva. In 1950, she made her operatic debut as Musetta in "La bohème" at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City and went on to sing leading roles there in operas including "La traviata", "Madama Butterfly", "L'amico Fritz", "Faust", "Carmen", "La serva padrona", "Il segreto di Susanna", "Werther", and "Don Giovanni"