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Gita De La Fuente, professional opera soprano, was born into the music world on 4 Sep 1921. in London, England. At the time her 60 year old father was a well known Dutch operatic conductor and her 29 year old mother, May Gilburt, an English concert pianist. Her grandfather was director of the Hague Conservatoire. Gita was educated in France and has lived in England, France, Germany, Holland, Belguim and Malta.

Gita De La Fuente won the Sam Heilbut Major Scholarship. at the Guildhall School of Music in London for singing and launched a long career as an operatic soprano. Her credits include the Carl Rosa Opera Company's production of Madam Butterfly in January, 1949, singing at the 1956 premiere of the Arthur Benjamin's opera, Manana, and as the The Golden Cockerel in Le Coq d'or produced by the Covent Garden Opera Company at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London in 1956. .

Gita was married to Mortimer Furber, a musicologist and conductor. Neither she nor her late husband are survived by any family at all.

Still vibrant at age 90 Gita lives in Malta and holds monthly CD concerts and talks at her residence in Malta.