Saturday, February 25, 2012

100 most frequently performed operas

I have discovered a more legitimate source for the 100 most frequently performed operas. It comes from the statistics page of a website called Operabase. They even say how the statistics are compiled: Over the 5 seasons, 2005/06 to 2009/10.

Key:   rank, country, (rank for country) composer (rank for composer) opera (performance count)

1at (#1)Mozart (#1)Die Zauberflöte (451) 
2it (#1)Verdi (#1)La traviata (447)
3fr (#1)Bizet (#1)Carmen (424) 
4it (#2)Puccini (#1)La bohème (420) 
5at (#2)Mozart (#2)Le nozze di Figaro (399) 
6it (#3)Puccini (#2)Tosca (379) 
7at (#3)Mozart (#3)Don Giovanni (360)
8it (#4)Puccini (#3)Madama Butterfly (349)
9it (#5)Rossini (#1)Il barbiere di Siviglia (327) 
10it (#6)Verdi (#2)Rigoletto (314) 
11at (#4)Mozart (#4)Così fan tutte (282) 
12it (#7)Donizetti (#1)L'elisir d'amore (218) 
13it (#8)Verdi (#3)Aida (215) 
14de (#1)Humperdinck (#1)Hänsel und Gretel (212) 
15it (#9)Puccini (#4)Turandot (206)
16at (#5)Strauss,J (#1)Die Fledermaus (200) 
17it (#10)Verdi (#4)Nabucco (183) 
18ru (#1)Tchaikovsky (#1)Eugene Onegin (175) 
19it (#11)Donizetti (#2)Lucia di Lammermoor (170) 
20it (#12)Leoncavallo (#1)Pagliacci (159) 
21at (#6)Mozart (#5)Die Entführung (157)
22hu (#1)Lehár (#1)Die lustige Witwe (149)
23it (#13)Verdi (#5)Il trovatore (147) 
24it (#14)Verdi (#6)Falstaff (144) 
25de (#2)Wagner,R (#1)Der fliegende Holländer (137)
26it (#15)Verdi (#7)Un ballo in maschera (136)
27it (#16)Mascagni (#1)Cavalleria rusticana (131) 
28it (#17)Verdi (#8)Otello (129) 
29it (#18)Rossini (#2)La cenerentola (124) 
30fr (#2)Offenbach (#1)Les contes d'Hoffmann (123) 
31it (#19)Verdi (#9)Macbeth (123) 
32de (#3)Strauss,R (#1)Salome (121) 
33de (#4)Wagner,R (#2)Das Rheingold (115) 
34de (#5)Beethoven (#1)Fidelio (112) 
35fr (#3)Gounod (#1)Faust (111) 
36de (#6)Wagner,R (#3)Die Walküre (110)
37de (#7)Strauss,R (#2)Der Rosenkavalier (104) 
38it (#20)Bellini (#1)Norma (102)
39de (#8)Wagner,R (#4)Tristan und Isolde (101)
40it (#21)Puccini (#5)Manon Lescaut (99) 
41it (#22)Verdi (#10)Don Carlos (99) 
42it (#23)Donizetti (#3)Don Pasquale (99)
43it (#24)Puccini (#6)Gianni Schicchi (97) 
44de (#9)Weber (#1)Der Freischütz (97) 
45at (#7)Mozart (#6)Idomeneo re di Creta (96)
46de (#10)Strauss,R (#3)Ariadne auf Naxos (93) 
47de (#11)Gluck (#1)Orfeo ed Euridice (90) 
48ru (#2)Tchaikovsky (#2)Pikovaya Dama (89) 
49de (#12)Strauss,R (#4)Elektra (87) 
50de (#13)Wagner,R (#5)Siegfried (86) 
51fr (#4)Massenet (#1)Werther (83)
52at (#8)Mozart (#7)La clemenza di Tito (83) 
53de (#14)Wagner,R (#6)Tannhäuser (82)
54de (#15)Wagner,R (#7)Parsifal (82) 
55it (#25)Rossini (#3)L'italiana in Algeri (82) 
56cz (#1)Dvořák (#1)Rusalka (80) 
57uk (#1)Purcell (#1)Dido and Aeneas (80) 
58ru (#3)Musorgsky (#1)Boris Godunov (76) 
59de (#16)Wagner,R (#8)Götterdämmerung (75) 
60fr (#5)Gounod (#2)Roméo et Juliette (72) 
61cz (#2)Janáček (#1)Jenůfa (71) 
62hu (#2)Kálmán (#1)Die Csárdásfürstin (70) 
63de (#17)Wagner,R (#9)Lohengrin (66)
64it (#26)Verdi (#11)La forza del destino (64) 
65cz (#3)Smetana (#1)Prodaná nevěsta (62) 
66uk (#2)Handel (#1)Giulio Cesare in Egitto (59)
67it (#27)Verdi (#12)Requiem (58) 
68us (#1)Gershwin (#1)Porgy and Bess (56) 
69at (#9)Berg (#1)Wozzeck (56) 
70it (#28)Verdi (#13)Simon Boccanegra (56) 
71fr (#6)Offenbach (#2)Orphée aux enfers (55) 
72it (#29)Monteverdi (#1)L'orfeo (55) 
73ru (#4)Shostakovich (#1)Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (54) 
74it (#30)Puccini (#7)Suor Angelica (54) 
75hu (#3)Lehár (#2)Das Land des Lächelns (53) 
76it (#31)Donizetti (#4)La fille du régiment (53) 
77de (#18)Wagner,R (#10)Die Meistersinger (50) 
78it (#32)Monteverdi (#2)L'incoronazione di Poppea (50) 
79hu (#4)Kálmán (#2)Gräfin Mariza (49) 
80fr (#7)Bizet (#2)Les pêcheurs de perles (49) 
81uk (#3)Britten (#1)The Turn of the Screw (48) 
82fr (#8)Debussy (#1)Pelléas et Mélisande (48) 
83it (#33)Rossini (#4)Il viaggio a Reims (48) 
84uk (#4)Britten (#2)A Midsummer Night's Dream (47) 
85ru (#5)Stravinsky (#1)The Rake's Progress (47) 
86it (#34)Giordano (#1)Andrea Chénier (45) 
87at (#10)Mozart (#8)La finta giardiniera (45) 
88fr (#9)Poulenc (#1)Dialogues des Carmélites (43) 
89fr (#10)Massenet (#2)Manon (43) 
90at (#11)Strauss,J (#2)Wiener Blut (43) 
91at (#12)Strauss,J (#3)Der Zigeunerbaron (42) 
92it (#35)Bellini (#2)La sonnambula (41) 
93ru (#6)Prokofiev (#1)The Love for Three Oranges (40) 
94fr (#11)Poulenc (#2)La voix humaine (39) 
95at (#13)Benatzky (#1)Im weißen Rößl (39) 
96cz (#4)Janáček (#2)The Cunning Little Vixen (39) 
97it (#36)Puccini (#8)Il Tabarro (37) 
98uk (#5)Britten (#3)Peter Grimes (36) 
99de (#19)Weill (#1)Mahagonny (36) 
100it (#37)Puccini (#9)La fanciulla del West (35)

Obviously a list like this will change over time.  It seems likely that the other list also derives from here, but for a different date range.

Handel is uk and Gluck is Germany.  If Handel is uk, doesn't Gluck have to be Austria?

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