# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/veronica-villarroel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:30:53.925Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/veronica-villarroel"
name: "Verónica Villarroel"
slug: "veronica-villarroel"
description: "Verónica Villarroel González is a Chilean operatic soprano. She won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 1989, and, from 1992 until her effective retirement from the stage in 2014, sang leading roles throughout Chile, as well as in New York and across the world. She then established her own academy, and later the Verónica Villarroel Foundation to provide scholarships for young singers."
tagline: "Chilean soprano singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ver%C3%B3nica_Villarroel_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1965-10-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.02
  momentum:             9.6
  historical:           6.809612
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://fundacionveronicavillarroel.cl"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/4061712"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ver%C3%B3nica_Villarroel"
    title: "Verónica Villarroel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ver%C3%B3nica_Villarroel"
    title: "Verónica Villarroel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ver%C3%B3nica_Villarroel"
    title: "Verónica Villarroel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ver%C3%B3nica_Villarroel"
    title: "Verónica Villarroel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ver%C3%B3nica_Villarroel"
    title: "Verónica Villarroel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ver%C3%B3nica_Villarroel"
    title: "Verónica Villarroel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/30dd93ff-0e85-45f0-86c2-db4aa1fc8789"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3780209"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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