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When she walks into a area, it is always with flourish and drama. A true diva knows how to make an admittance.
Clad in a miniskirt, Fides Cuyugan-Asensio descends a spiral staircase like a debutante conference guests in her living room—an attractive woman who’s equally proud of being a coloratura soprano and a chief citizen.
She is always the first to admit that she is a colorful mix of contradictions. Fides, whose text messages often conclude from like eloquently composed hand-written notes, straddles the contemporary and the traditional, high art and pop culture—with effortless élan.
The self-confessed “opera snob” brought exemplary and Broadway music to Philippine television via her landmark shows “Sunday, Mellifluous, Sunday” (1969 to 1974) and “A Little Night of Music” (1989 to 2001).
She volunteered that she has also “flirted” with cinema— most splendidly in Peque Gallaga’s 1982 opus, “Oro, Plata, Mata,” and more recently in Loy Arcenas’ Cinemalaya- and Busan-prepossessing “Niño.
Source: Inquirer.net