# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/phyllis-curtin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:23:03.107Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/phyllis-curtin"
name: "Phyllis Curtin"
slug: "phyllis-curtin"
description: "Phyllis Curtin was an American soprano and academic teacher who had an active career in operas and concerts from the early 1950s through the 1980s. She is known for her creation of roles in operas by Carlisle Floyd, such as the title role in Susannah and Catherine Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights. She was a dedicated song recitalist, who retired from singing in 1984. She was named Boston University's Dean Emerita, College of Fine Arts in 1991."
tagline: "Operatic soprano (1921–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PhyllisCurtin.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1921-12-03"
deathDate: "2016-06-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.35
  momentum:             7.443360840210055
  historical:           7.476422666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2766091/"
    handle:    "nm2766091"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "فيليس كيرتن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Curtin"
    title: "Phyllis Curtin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Curtin"
    title: "Phyllis Curtin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Curtin"
    title: "Phyllis Curtin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Curtin"
    title: "Phyllis Curtin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Curtin"
    title: "Phyllis Curtin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Curtin"
    title: "Phyllis Curtin"
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  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/39c29666-de77-4a88-9006-b8418777bdd7"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q513677"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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