# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dorothea-wendling
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:38:03.317Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dorothea-wendling"
name: "Dorothea Wendling"
slug: "dorothea-wendling"
description: "(Maria) Dorothea Wendling, née Spurni was a German soprano. Born in Stuttgart, she is remembered for being the singer for whom Mozart wrote the role of Ilia in Idomeneo, re di Creta. In Mannheim, she also created the roles of Giunia in Niccolò Jommelli's and Mattia Verazi's Caio Fabrizio (1760), the title roles in Tommaso Traetta's Sofonisba (1762) and Gian Francesco de Majo's Ifigenia in Tauride (1764), both on librettos by Verazi, as well as Cleofide in de Majo's Alessandro, Emirena in Ignaz Holzbauer's Adriano en Siria, Marzia in Niccolò Piccinni's Catone in Utica, Aspasia in Johann Christian Bach's Temistocle, Giunia in his Lucio Silla and the title role in Holzbauer's La morte di Didone."
tagline: "German operatic soprano"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dorothea_Wendling-Spurni.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1736-03-21"
deathDate: "1811-08-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.67
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.136753333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "دوروثاى ويندلينج"
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    title: "Dorothea Wendling"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Wendling"
    title: "Dorothea Wendling"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump