On the road to normality after the coronavirus crisis
The latest "Who performed what?" statistics from the German Stage Association show a clear recovery from the coronavirus crisis.
Performance and audience figures are rising again. The number of all productions in the season rose to 6773 in Germany (7716 in the entire German-speaking theater, including Austria and Switzerland). According to the New Music Newspaper but also that new topics are being discussed on stage, primarily the war in Ukraine.
While musical theater lost a quarter of its audience from 2018/19 to 2022/23, drama and children's and youth theater each lost around ten percent, writes the New Music Newspaper further. These figures are taken from the Werkstatistik, for which 437 theaters from Germany, Austria and Switzerland provided their data for the 2022/23 season.
The Magic flute is the most frequently staged opera (23 productions) before Hansel and Gretel (20 productions) and The Marriage of Figaro (18 productions). Contemporary opera does not appear in the hit lists. Across all genres, the three works with the largest audiences are others: The Bochum musical Starlight Express (with 440,497), the Bad Segeberger open-air spectacle Winnetou I (with 430,321) and ARISE Grand Show from the Friedrichstadt Palast in Berlin (with 422,419).
Original article:
https://www.nmz.de/politik-betrieb/musikleben/neue-werkstatistik-202223-postpandemische-erholung
