# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/catherine-malfitano
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:46:06.482Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/catherine-malfitano"
name: "Catherine Malfitano"
slug: "catherine-malfitano"
description: "Catherine Malfitano is an American operatic soprano and opera director. Malfitano was born in New York City, the daughter of a ballet dancer mother, Maria Maslova, and a violinist father, Joseph Malfitano. She attended the High School of Music and Art and studied at the Frank Corsaro Studio and Manhattan School of Music, graduating in 1971. She often mentions that she was rejected from The Juilliard School."
tagline: "Singer, opera director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Catherine_Malfitano_dans_Traviata_par_Claude_Truong-Ngoc_1980.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1948-04-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.02
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.75079333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0539459/"
    handle:    "nm0539459"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/3701839"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "كاثرين مالفيتانو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Malfitano"
    title: "Catherine Malfitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Malfitano"
    title: "Catherine Malfitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Malfitano"
    title: "Catherine Malfitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Malfitano"
    title: "Catherine Malfitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Malfitano"
    title: "Catherine Malfitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Malfitano"
    title: "Catherine Malfitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Malfitano"
    title: "Catherine Malfitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Malfitano"
    title: "Catherine Malfitano"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%2C_%D0%9A%D1%8D%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Мальфитано, Кэтрин"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q468585"
    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Catherine Malfitano"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump