# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marita-napier
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:25:34.339Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marita-napier"
name: "Marita Napier"
slug: "marita-napier"
description: "Marita Napier was a South African operatic soprano, known internationally as a performer of music by Strauss and Wagner. She performed in 19 productions of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. In 1989, a recording of Wagner's Die Walküre with her in a Metropolitan Opera production was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording. Napier was considered one of the best Turandot, having performed the role for over 70 times including 1989 production by Franco Zeffirelli at the Met."
tagline: "South African singer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1939-02-16"
deathDate: "2004-04-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.73
  momentum:             15
  historical:           8.136285333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1249311"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marita_Napier"
    title: "Marita Napier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marita_Napier"
    title: "Marita Napier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marita_Napier"
    title: "Marita Napier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marita_Napier"
    title: "Marita Napier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marita_Napier"
    title: "Marita Napier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marita_Napier"
    title: "Marita Napier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marita_Napier"
    title: "Marita Napier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marita_Napier"
    title: "Marita Napier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6fa65b14-7064-41b8-b9a5-b3c803c93120"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9029227"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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