Active Zurich Opera House
The Vienna State Opera is the most active opera house in the world, while the Zurich Opera House also makes it into the top ten. Andreas Homoki is the 6th most-performed opera director. These are some of the results of the 2018 statistics on the Bachtrack website.
Bachtrack also notes, for example, that contemporary female composers are still severely underrepresented in the concert hall, with a particularly alarmingly low figure in Germany: of all contemporary works performed by German orchestras in 2018, only 5 percent were by women. Sweden has the highest figure here, at 37 percent.
Women are improving faster than men in the 2018 statistics, albeit from a weak starting point: Clara Schumann is in second place behind Lili Boulanger as the most performed female composer, and both also made it into the list of the top 100 composers, at 94th and 85th place respectively. They are the first women in the top 100.
Four German and one Austrian orchestra have made it into the top 10 most active orchestras in the world, with the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie in second place with 139 performances. Composer Jörg Widmann is in third place in the top 5 most frequently performed contemporary composers worldwide.
More info: www.bachtrack.com
