Betty Fabila
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Betty Fabila is a Mexican soprano opera singer, born in Mexico City. She made her musical studies in the National Conservatory of Música (INBA) and in the National School of Música (UNAM) under the guide of the eminent baritone David Silva.
Very young participated in the Academy of Opera of the National Institute of Beauty Arts and Literature making her debut in the Palace of Beautiful Arts like “Musetta” of Puccini’s La Boheme in 1950, being acclaimed by the specialized critic for her youth and exceptional artistic faculties. Her career was meteoric and very soon was protagonist of different operas like La Traviata, Madama Butterfly, L'Amico Fritz, Faustus, Carmen, The Prodigal Son, The Servo Padrona, The Secret of Susana, Werther, Don Juan and The Legend of Rudel, among others. In 1951 Mexican and Italian governments chosen soprano Betty Fabila to interpret “Violetta” of Traviata in occasion of the Year Verdi. Event that was made in the capital and inside the country, role that represented again in 1953 in the occasion of the centenary of this opera.
She alternated with great national singers like José Sosa, Roberto Silva, Julio Julián, José Mendieta, Gil Mondragón, Carlos Morelli, Hugo Avendaño, Cristián Caballero, Rosa Rimoch, Socorro Sala, Irma González, Aurora Woodrow, as well as with international artists of the stature of Giuseppe Di Stefano, Giuseppe Campora, Victoria de los Ángeles, Giulietta Simionato, Ettore Bastianini, Jerome Hines, Enzo Mascherini, Norman Scott and Ralph Herbert. She sung with conductors like Uberto Zanolli, Güido Picco, Humberto Mugnai, Eduardo Hernández Moncada, Giuseppe Narducci, Armando Montiel, among others.
Versatile artist, in other sorts alternated with Pedro Vargas and Emilio Tuero under the direction of Francisco Cardenal, Juan S. Garrido and Raúl Lavista. She made tours abroad, excelling his presentations in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Miami, in where the “Key of the City” in 1955 was granted to her.
Pioneer of the Mexican Television in channels 4 and 2 (1949), developed next to his husband Uberto Zanolli an outstanding cultural work in Canal 11 of the National Polithecnic Institute at the beginning the 1960s. In 1964 she obtained the professional title of Biologist with honorary mention by the Faculty of Ciencias (NAUM) and later attended the degree in Etnohistoria in the National School of Anthropology and Historia (NAHI). In 1959 entered as professor of Biology and Aesthetic Activities at the Nacional Preparatory School (NAUM).
Betty Fabila was solo soprano of the Orchestra of Camera of the National Preparatory School (NAUM) from 1972 to 1994, musical grouping that was founded and conducted by Zanolliuntil his death and to who supported in the accomplishment of his magna work of cultural diffusion and didactic formation of preparatoriana youth.
Since 1962 is diffuser of the vocal work of Giacomo Facco, Italian musician whose life and work rescued Uberto Zanolliin Mexico, of who has released more than a dozen of cantatas.
