# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cheryl-barker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:23:44.639Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cheryl-barker"
name: "Cheryl Barker"
slug: "cheryl-barker"
description: "Cheryl Ruth Barker is an Australian operatic soprano who has had an active international career since the late 1980s. She has sung on several complete opera recordings with Chandos Records, including the title roles in Dvořák's Rusalka, Janáček's Káťa Kabanová and Puccini's Madama Butterfly, and Emilia Marty in Janáček's The Makropulos Case. She has also made two solo recordings of opera arias, one with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor David Parry and the other with Orchestra Victoria and conductor Richard Bonynge. On the stage she has had partnerships with the English National Opera (ENO) and Opera Australia."
tagline: "Australian opera soprano"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cheryl_Barker_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1960-04-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42
  momentum:             15.74074074074074
  historical:           6.607308
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0054849/"
    handle:    "nm0054849"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/2jLGfQjfLu7sb1U2ypHq3K"
    handle:    "2jLGfQjfLu7sb1U2ypHq3K"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "شيريل باركر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شيريل باركر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Barker"
    title: "Cheryl Barker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Barker"
    title: "Cheryl Barker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Barker"
    title: "Cheryl Barker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3dc86a38-ebd7-4a32-b8d0-c8bef23b1cd0"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5092689"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1365738"
    title: "Cheryl Barker"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump