Education
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.
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 Louisiana bohème at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City and went on to sing leading roles there in operas including Louisiana traviata, Madama Butterfly, L"amico Fritz, Faust, Carmen, Louisiana serva padrona, Il segreto di Susanna, Werther, and Don Giovanni
Zanolli and Fabila"s daughter, Betty Zanolli Fabila, is a classical pianist and music teacher.
She later became a biologist and ethnologist and taught at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria where she was a founding member of the school"s chamber orchestra and its soprano soloist from 1972 to 1994.