# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ritva-auvinen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:32:10.463Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ritva-auvinen"
name: "Ritva Auvinen"
slug: "ritva-auvinen"
description: "Ritva Alina Auvinen-Kolehmainen was a Finnish operatic soprano and academic voice teacher. She appeared in more than 70 opera roles in a long career, working freelance for the Finnish National Opera, and was recognised internationally for leading roles that she performed in world premieres of Finnish operas such as Kokkonen's The Last Temptations and Sallinen's The Red Line."
tagline: "Finnish opera singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ritva_Auvinen_1965_(HK7155-1100-65-1)_crop2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1932-10-18"
deathDate: "2026-01-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.21
  momentum:             10.81613508442777
  historical:           6.40342
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1658207/"
    handle:    "nm1658207"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2251332"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritva_Auvinen"
    title: "Ritva Auvinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritva_Auvinen"
    title: "Ritva Auvinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritva_Auvinen"
    title: "Ritva Auvinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritva_Auvinen"
    title: "Ritva Auvinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritva_Auvinen"
    title: "Ritva Auvinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritva_Auvinen"
    title: "Ritva Auvinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/fa7389b8-19aa-4cb0-aa62-2aaba7a74ca3"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16297952"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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