Jovita Fuentes was an opera singer and the first female National Artist for Music in 1976

JOVITA FUENTES

Jovita Fuentes made her name in European operas portraying the role of Cio-cio-san in Giacomo Puccini's Madame Butterfly. After that, she appeared in many operas in Europe. An internationally acclaimed artist, she was at that time the first Filipina to have performed extensively around the world.

In the Philippines she became the chairperson of the Music Promotion Foundation of the Philippines with the purpose of developing and maintaining a Filipino symphony orchestra and a Filipino opera company.

15 February 1895

to 7 Aug 1978