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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.

Mozart's ‘The Magic Flute’ was Germany's most performed opera of the 2021-22 season. Overall, peformance figures stabilised after COVID-19 breakout.

‘The Merry Widow’ by Franz Lehár and Johann Strauss's ‘Die Fledermaus’ were Germany's most performed operettas of the 2021-22 season.

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.

At German theatres, non-permanent artistic staff was strongly affected by the pandemic. Figures of other staff groups only slightely decreased.

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.

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.

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.