# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joan-cross
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:40:09.975Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joan-cross"
name: "Joan Cross"
slug: "joan-cross"
description: "Joan Annie Cross was an English soprano, closely associated with the operas of Benjamin Britten, who wrote five roles with her in mind. She also sang in the Italian and German operatic repertoires, and later became a musical administrator, taking on the direction of the Sadler's Wells Opera Company and acting as principal of the Opera Studio in London. Her repertoire was unusually wide, ranging from lyric to dramatic soprano roles, from Mozart to Wagner. Most of her singing career was with Sadler's Wells Opera, the forerunner of the English National Opera but she appeared at the Royal Opera House from time to time."
tagline: "British opera singer (1900–1993)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Joan-Cross-Gloriana.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "female"
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: "1900-09-07"
deathDate: "1993-12-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.98
  momentum:             7.894736842105262
  historical:           8.540605333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1663871/"
    handle:    "nm1663871"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2138196"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "چوان كروس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Cross"
    title: "Joan Cross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Cross"
    title: "Joan Cross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Cross"
    title: "Joan Cross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Cross"
    title: "Joan Cross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Cross"
    title: "Joan Cross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ジョーン・クロス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Cross"
    title: "Joan Cross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8f169ff4-2b76-43de-8168-8c7ec10e4f14"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3179569"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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