# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stefka-evstatieva
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:25:46.697Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stefka-evstatieva"
name: "Stefka Evstatieva"
slug: "stefka-evstatieva"
description: "Stefka Evstatieva was a Bulgarian operatic soprano. She performed with the Sofia National Opera from 1979 and soon made an international career at the major opera houses of Europe and the United States. She portrayed Desdemona in Verdi's Otello at the Royal Opera House in London, Maddalena in Giordano's Andrea Chénier at La Scala in Milan, Lisa in Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades at the Philadelphia Opera, and Elisabetta in Verdi's Don Carlos at the Metropolitan Opera, among many others."
tagline: "Bulgarian operatic soprano (1947–2025)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stefka_Evstatieva_in_Don_Carlo_c._1984_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1947-05-07"
deathDate: "2025-11-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.27
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.204824
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/3346718"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefka_Evstatieva"
    title: "Stefka Evstatieva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefka_Evstatieva"
    title: "Stefka Evstatieva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefka_Evstatieva"
    title: "Stefka Evstatieva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefka_Evstatieva"
    title: "Stefka Evstatieva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefka_Evstatieva"
    title: "Stefka Evstatieva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefka_Ewstatiewa"
    title: "Stefka Ewstatiewa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8f3fd4b3-7ae8-473e-ad50-675447b01f54"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3498034"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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