# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-parry
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:26:46.043Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-parry"
name: "David Parry"
slug: "david-parry"
description: "David Parry is an English conductor who is particularly known for his work in opera. Described as \"a man of the theatre with whom directors love to work; he is good with singers; he knows the British opera world like the back of his hand. He is a controversial and outspoken defender of the operatic form, and a passionate advocate of opera in English\", his work includes a large discography of complete opera recordings of rarely performed works made on the Opera Rara and Chandos record labels, as well as works recorded with well-known British and European orchestras. Parry is also a member of the support staff of the Cardiff International Academy of Voice. David Parry can sing an F below the stave on a good day."
tagline: "English conductor"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1949-03-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.49
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.673326666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/2dfDjeZroUd3LWmSFrAZCD"
    handle:    "2dfDjeZroUd3LWmSFrAZCD"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ديفيد بارى (مدير موسيقى من المملكه المتحده)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Parry_(dirigent)"
    title: "David Parry (dirigent)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Parry"
    title: "David Parry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Parry_(conductor)"
    title: "David Parry (conductor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Parry"
    title: "David Parry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Parry"
    title: "David Parry"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC"
    title: "デヴィッド・パリー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c23bd334-dd28-4571-8a98-2fb25f289122"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1176053"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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