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420.000 performances on file since 1996;
Seasons of 900+ opera companies, around 25,000 performances each year
Works from 1010 different composers were played, of whom 500 are living
A total of 2170 different works were given, including 300 world premieres over the 5 seasons
The most operatic countries: Þýskaland (7266 performances)
Cities with the most opera: Wien (616 performances)
Lönd Top 10 20 50 all
Total number of performances by country, for the 2009/10 season.
In brackets, the national populations in millions.
NB: figures for countries outside western Europe and North America (particularly Russia) will be too low, as it was difficult to get accurate and complete information for them [See a later year].As Operabase collected about 21,000 performances in this season, Germany is mounting about 30% of all opera performances globally.
Lönd, mv. höfðatölu Top 10 20 50 all
The number of performances per million citizens.
In brackets, the total number of performances and the population in millions.
The size of Austria's lead is quite remarkable.  Interestingly, Austria would have led this table (and Vienna that of the cities) even before the Theater an der Wien was added as the city's fourth opera house in January 2006.
Borgir Top 10 20 50 100 all * Heimurinn Argentína Austurríki ástralía Belgía Búlgaría Brasílía Hvíta-Rússland Kanada Sviss Chile Kína Kólombía Kýpur Tékkland Þýskaland Danmörk Eistland Spánn Finnland Frakkland Georgía Grikkland Hong Kong Króatía Ungverjaland írland ísrael ísland ítalía Japan Líbanon Litháen Lúxemborg Lettland Mónakó Moldova Makedónía Malta Mexíkó Holland Noregur Nýja Sjáland Perú Pólland Portúgal Rúmenía Rússland Svíþjóð Singapore Slóvenía Slóvakía Tyrkland Bretland Ameríka Suður Afríka
The number of performances in each city, in the 2009/10 season.
The figure given in brackets is the urban population in millions. Measured by the number of opera performances in the 2009/10 season, the most operatic cities were Wien (with 617 performances), Berlin, London, Moscow, and Hamburg (in position 5), followed by New York, Paris and Prague.
Of the top 100 most operatic cities,
no fewer than 47(!) are in Germany
5 each in Switzerland and in Poland
3 in the US, in the Czech Republic and in Russia
2 in France, in Spain, in the UK and in Australia
Tónskáld Top 10 20 50 100 200 500 all * Heimurinn Argentína Austurríki ástralía Belgía Búlgaría Brasílía Kanada Sviss Tékkland Þýskaland Danmörk Spánn Eistland Finnland Frakkland Georgía Grikkland Króatía Ungverjaland ísrael ítalía Japan Suður Kórea Litháen Lettland Moldova Mexíkó Holland Pólland Portúgal Rúmenía Rússland Svíþjóð Slóvakía Úkraína Bretland Ameríka
Composers ranked by the number of performances of their operas over the five seasons 2005/06 to 2009/10After the first three (Verdi, Mozart, Puccini), who dominate the listings, there's a gap to the next three (Wagner, Rossini, Donizetti).
Good news for Benjamin Britten: at position 13, he is the highest ranked composer born in the 20th century even before the celebrations of the centenary of his birth in 2013.
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