# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/virgil-popa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:57:11.089Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/virgil-popa"
name: "Virgil Popa"
slug: "virgil-popa"
description: "Virgil Popa is a Romanian-born Spanish conductor. He is the founder and director of the International Orchestra of Madrid. His repertoire includes great works of classical and contemporary music. Currently he is the in-house conductor of the Stradivari Symphony Orchestra."
tagline: "Romanian-born conductor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Virgil_Popa.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1975-10-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.28
  momentum:             3.333333333333333
  historical:           5.468250666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_Popa"
    title: "Virgil Popa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7"
    title: "فيرجيل بوبا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_Popa"
    title: "Virgil Popa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%84_%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%BE%D8%A7"
    title: "ورجل پوپا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_Popa"
    title: "Virgil Popa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_Popa_(dirijor)"
    title: "Virgil Popa (dirijor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24265697"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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