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420.000 performances on file since 1996;
Seasons of 900+ opera companies, around 25,000 performances each year
Works from 1108 different composers were played, of whom more than half (580) are living
A total of 2350 different works were given, including 300 world premieres over the 5 seasons
The most operatic countries: Þýskaland (7307 performances)
Cities with the most opera: Berlin (561 performances)
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Total number of performances by country, for the 2011/12 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.
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The number of performances per million citizens.
In brackets, the total number of performances and the population in millions.
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 2011/12 season.
The figure given in brackets is the urban population in millions. Measured by the number of opera performances in the 2011/12 season, the most operatic cities were Berlin (with 594 performances), Wien, London, Paris, and München (in position 5), followed by Prague, New York, and Dresden.
Since our first set of statistics, Berlin has overtaken Wien to be the city with most opera performances.
Of the top 100 most operatic cities,
45 are in Germany
6 each in Switzerland and Italy
3 in the US, and in Russia
2 in the Czech Republic, 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 2007/08 to 2011/12Compared with our statistics from 2009/10, the order of the composers remains much the same, but there have been big increases in the numbers of performances of works by the composers at the top of the table.  This is possibly due to some companies choosing safer programming due to the global financial situation.  There were also big increases for composers with approaching centenaries: Verdi 3020 productions (up from 2259 in 2009/10), Wagner (1292 up from 920).Can't read stats0712_compperf.csv ... aborting