In Cielo rojo, a TV Azteca telenovela that aired from 2011 to 2012, Betty Monroe played Sofía, a character unlike the villains she had stood out in.
Key facts
- Type: TV Azteca telenovela
- Premiere: Monday, May 23, 2011, on Azteca 13, at 9:30 p.m. Mexico City time
- Time slot: Monday to Friday, at 9:30 p.m. Mexico City time
- In the United States: at the same time as in Mexico, on Azteca América
- Finale: Friday, January 13, 2012
- Production: headed by Rafael Urióstegui
- Writer: Eric Vonn
- Theme song: “Cielo rojo,” sung by Ana Gabriel
- Leads: Edith González and Mauricio Islas
- Betty Monroe’s character: Sofía
The story
Alma Durán (Edith González) and Andrés Rentería (Mauricio Islas) fell in love as teenagers, but fate always found a way to keep them apart. As adults, they met again and decided to run away together, until a tragedy separated them once more.
Betty in Cielo rojo
Betty Monroe joined the recordings on Saturday, August 20, 2011, three months after the premiere. The next day she told Notimex:
“Yesterday was my first day of recording. I’m very happy because it’s a character very different from all the ones I’ve played, she’s good and she falls in love” (translated from Spanish).
“Her name is Sofía, she’s a divorced woman and a very good one” (translated from Spanish).
In the story, Sofía is an old love of Ricardo (Alberto Casanova) who comes to win him back, which makes Mariana (Aura Cristina Geithner), one of the villains, jealous. Her meeting with Ricardo came in episode 77, on September 6, 2011. In episode 124, on November 10, 2011, Sofía tells Alma that Andrés is still seeing Aleida.
After Cielo rojo, Betty Monroe acted in La mujer de Judas, the telenovela that took over the 9:30 p.m. slot from Cielo rojo.
In the press
- PRODU, April 15, 2011: “New novela Cielo Rojo will launch simultaneously on Azteca América and Azteca in Mexico”.
- TV Azteca, May 17, 2011: “El elenco de Cielo Rojo listo para el estreno” (Internet Archive copy, in Spanish).
- TV Azteca, May 24, 2011: “Cielo Rojo… El comienzo de una gran historia”, on the premiere (Internet Archive copy, in Spanish).
- PRODU, May 19, 2011: “Azteca América estrena novela Cielo rojo con Edith González y Mauricio Islas”, in Spanish.
- Terra, May 25, 2011: “Elenco de ‘Cielo Rojo’ celebra exitoso primer capítulo” (Internet Archive copy, in Spanish).
- El Informador, July 7, 2011: “”Cielo rojo” cambia de escenario”, on the recording in Paris, in Spanish.
- El Informador, August 21, 2011: “Betty Monroe regresa a las telenovelas”, from Notimex, in Spanish.
- TV Azteca, August 31, 2011: “Alberto Casanova se deja querer en Querátaro”, on his character, Ricardo (Internet Archive copy, in Spanish).
- El Informador, December 11, 2011: “Protagonizará Anette Michel nueva telenovela de TV Azteca”, on La mujer de Judas, in Spanish.
- FormulaTV, January 9, 2012: “La telenovela ‘Cielo rojo’ llegará este próximo jueves a La 1”, in Spanish.
- TV Azteca, January 13, 2012: “Cielo Rojo terminó…¿Te gustó el final?” (Internet Archive copy, in Spanish).
- TV Azteca, February 23, 2022: “¿A qué hora, cuándo y dónde ver la retransmisión de Cielo Rojo?”, in Spanish.
- TV Azteca, the telenovela’s official site in 2011 (Internet Archive copy, in Spanish).
- TV Azteca, the episode pages in 2011 (Internet Archive copies, in Spanish): episode 1, episode 77 and episode 124.
Last updated: October 20, 2026.
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