During the 1985 Mexico City earthquake , her brother Angel María Embil died , along with his wife , Francisca . In the same building , Embil 's nephew Agustín García Embil and his three-year-old son , Julio Agustín García Pinilla , were also killed . Her husband , Plácido Domingo Ferrer , died of a heart attack in 1987 at age 80 . The following year , the Teatro de la Zarzuela paid homage to her by dedicating a performance of Moreno Torroba 's '' '' to her . The theater 's director , conductor Miguel Roa , wrote a poem to honor her on the occasion . In a 1990 tribute to her in San Sebastián , Embil and her son sang a duet together of the Basque song , " Aurtxoa Seaskan , " with the Orfeón Donostiarra . Embil died on August 28 , 1994 in Mexico City from a liver disease caused by a blood transfusion from twenty years earlier . She was 76 years old . She is buried next to her husband at the Panteón Española de México . The President of Mexico at the time , Carlos Salinas de Gortari , attended her wake
1985 Mexico City earthquake
1985 Mexico City earthquake
Pepita Embil