# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-runnicles
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:26:14.947Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donald-runnicles"
name: "Donald Runnicles"
slug: "donald-runnicles"
description: "Sir Donald Cameron Runnicles is a Scottish conductor. Runnicles has served as music director of the San Francisco Opera, principal guest conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, principal conductor of the Orchestra of St. Luke's, music director of the Grand Teton Music Festival, and chief conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. He is currently Generalmusikdirektor of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and chief conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic."
tagline: "Scottish conductor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Donald_Runnicles_plays_piano_for_the_Deutsche_Oper_Berlin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1954-11-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1270048/"
    handle:    "nm1270048"
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    title: "Donald Runnicles"
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    title: "Donald Runnicles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Donald Runnicles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Runnicles"
    title: "Donald Runnicles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump