# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/viorica-cortez
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:18:51.980Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/viorica-cortez"
name: "Viorica Cortez"
slug: "viorica-cortez"
description: "Viorica Cortez is a noted Romanian-born mezzo-soprano, later French by naturalisation. Starting her operatic and concert career in the mid-1960s, she went on to become one of the most prominent female performers of the 1970s and 1980s, and continued singing for many years after that."
tagline: "Romanian mezzo"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/25.02.1972._Don_Carlos_(Viorica_Cort%C3%A8s%26_Lielana_Merligioli)._(1972)_-_53Fi4199.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1935-12-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.25
  momentum:             1.03448275862069
  historical:           9.210368
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0181405/"
    handle:    "nm0181405"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1513766"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D1%91%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D1%8D%D1%81"
    title: "Віёрыка Картэс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viorica_Cortez"
    title: "Viorica Cortez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viorica_Cortez"
    title: "Viorica Cortez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viorica_Cortez"
    title: "Viorica Cortez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viorica_Cortez"
    title: "Viorica Cortez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viorica_Cortez"
    title: "Viorica Cortez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%81%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0"
    title: "Кортес, Виорика"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%96%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%81"
    title: "Віоріка Кортес"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c3b23911-5162-4bae-aeab-4f92b16c5bac"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2501899"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1807980"
    title: "Viorica Cortez"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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