SINGER

Heather Harper

1930 - 2019

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Heather Mary Harper (8 May 1930 – 22 April 2019) was a Northern Irish operatic soprano. She was active internationally in both opera and concert. She performed roles such as Helena in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Royal Opera House, Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin at the Bayreuth Festival, and the Countess in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro at the Metropolitan Opera. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heather Harper has received more than 115,551 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Heather Harper is the 1,686th most popular singer (up from 1,767th in 2019), the 4,514th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,687th in 2019) and the 181st most popular British Singer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Heather Harper ranks 1,686 out of 4,381. Before her are Gertrud Elisabeth Mara, Sarit Hadad, Diomedes Díaz, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Eddie Floyd, and Anita Bryant. After her are Cristina Scabbia, Regina Resnik, Candan Erçetin, Ellen Greene, Jack Teagarden, and Tom Odell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Heather Harper ranks 502. Before her are Robert Atkins, G. Gordon Liddy, Anthony Soter Fernandez, Paul-Émile de Souza, Michel Deguy, and Regīna Ezera. After her are Georg Stollenwerk, Monique Mercure, Alifa Rifaat, James Fifer, Dolores Huerta, and Kenny Wheeler. Among people deceased in 2019, Heather Harper ranks 434. Before her are Koldo Aguirre, Ken Matthews, Michael D. Coe, Caroll Spinney, Daniel Johnston, and John Paul Stevens. After her are Halvard Hanevold, Valerie Harper, Jeremy Kemp, Eduard Krieger, Carmine Caridi, and D. A. Pennebaker.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Heather Harper ranks 4,514 out of 8,785. Before her are Owain Yeoman (1978), William Sherard (1659), Julian Symons (1912), Colin Salmon (1962), Matthew Lewis (1989), and Nigella Lawson (1960). After her are John Francis Davis (1795), Jhumpa Lahiri (1967), Eddie Howe (1977), Ewen Bremner (1972), Thomas Tomkins (1572), and Gerry Ashmore (1936).

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Among SINGERS In United Kingdom

Among singers born in United Kingdom, Heather Harper ranks 181. Before her are Emma Kirkby (1949), Vashti Bunyan (1945), Justin Hayward (1946), Sophie Ellis-Bextor (1979), Paul Carrack (1951), and John Farnham (1949). After her are Tom Odell (1990), Long John Baldry (1941), Lynsey de Paul (1948), Alex Kapranos (1972), Simon Fuller (1960), and Tommy Steele (1936).

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