Teaser imageImage copyright Photo: Bayerische Staatsoper Article Music Theatre Millions of people attend music theatre performances in Germany every year. Half of the over 11,000 events are opera performances, followed by dance, musicals and operettas. read more
Statistik Aug 2023 Operas most frequently performed in Germany Mozart's ‘The Magic Flute’ was Germany's most performed opera of the 2021-22 season. Overall, peformance figures stabilised after COVID-19 breakout. read more
Statistik Aug 2022 Operettas most frequently performed in Germany ‘The Merry Widow’ by Franz Lehár and Johann Strauss's ‘Die Fledermaus’ were Germany's most performed operettas of the 2021-22 season. read more
Statistik Jun 2023 Events and attendance at publicly financed music theatres With only 3,205 opera, operetta, musical and dance performances and 685,000 visits to these events, the consequences of the pandemic on theatre operations in the 2020-21 season are profound. read more
Statistik Jun 2023 Staff at publicly financed music theatres At German theatres, non-permanent artistic staff was strongly affected by the pandemic. Figures of other staff groups only slightely decreased. read more
Statistik Jun 2023 Expenses of publicly financed theatres (music and spoken theatres) The total expenses of publicly financed theatres in Germany amounted to approximately 3.2 billion euros in 2020. 68.5 % of the expenditure was for staff. read more
Teaser imageImage copyright Photo: Oper Frankfurt Article Opernrepertoirebildung Wie hat sich das Repertoire, das heute die Spielpläne der Musiktheater bestimmt, im Laufe der Operngeschichte gebildet? Wirksam sind unter anderem gesellschaftliche Faktoren. read more
Teaser image Article Von A(dam) bis Z(ingarelli): Musiktheaterrepertoire in Deutschland Seit Jahrzehnten stehen die Opern bekannter Komponisten in der Publikumsgunst ganz oben. Daneben bieten die Bühnen eine reiche Auswahl an Werken vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. read more
Teaser image Article Neue Impulse: Zeitgenössisches Musiktheater Durchschnittlich sind in jeder Saison über 30 Uraufführungen von Opern auf den Musiktheaterbühnen in Deutschland zu erleben. Sie setzen auch Impulse für Inszenierungen des Kernrepertoires. read more
TeaserbildExterner Bildverweis Institution Bielefelder Philharmoniker Brunnenstr. 3-9, 33602 Bielefeld read more
Institution Badische Philharmonie Pforzheim Theater Pforzheim Am Waisenhausplatz 5, 75172 Pforzheim read more
TeaserbildExterner Bildverweis Institution Theater Pforzheim Am Waisenhausplatz 5, 75172 Pforzheim read more
TeaserbildExterner Bildverweis Institution Theater Bielefeld Brunnenstr. 3-9, 33602 Bielefeld read more
TeaserbildExterner Bildverweis Institution Staatstheater Cottbus Lausitzer Str. 33, 03046 Cottbus read more
Institution Philharmonisches Orchester der Stadt Ulm Theater Ulm Herbert-von-Karajan-Platz 1, 89073 Ulm read more
Institution Europäischer Opernregie-Preis (EOP) Camerata Nuova e.V. Mathildenstraße 8, 65189 Wiesbaden read more