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There are now 300 reviews of Blu-ray and DVD recordings in the database.  (70 Blu-ray, the balance DVD)  As I did at 200 I took a look at how they break out.  I’ve pretty much exhausted the opera dvd resources of the Toronto public library system so recent and future reviews are more likely to be of things I’ve chosen to spend money on, bar the odd review copy from record companies.

languageThe first thing I looked at was language of performance.  It’s no surprise that Italian (96) and German (72) dominate the list.  French is  a strong third at 55.  English comes in at 40, almost all 20th and 21st century works.  Other (7) is quite interesting as it mostly reflects works in multiple languages such as Tan Dun’s Marco Polo.  “Other” is very much a modern category.  Continue reading →

A statistical round up of 2013

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jane_tixOperaramblings closed out 2013 with 70323 hits, up 47% from 2012.  Every month was busier than its equivalent in 2012 with a record high 7050 hits in October.  The busiest day was December 15th with 761 hits boosted by traffic related to Against the Grain’s Messiah.  I’ll be interested to see if this upward trend continues.  Personally, I think we are close to plateauing but at a level I would have regarded as completely unattainable when I started this little venture.

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200 disks

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I’ve now reviewed 200 opera performances on DVD and Blu-Ray.  They range alphabetically from Adams to Zemlinsky and chronologically from Monteverdi to Reimann.  The oldest performance is a 1931 film of Die Dreigroschenoper and the latest a 2012 recording of Arabella.  Just for fun I did some quick stats on four parameters; century of composition, decade of performance, language of performance and place of performance.

centuryThe century of composition stats show, perhaps unsurprisingly, that my tastes don’t lie in opera’s temporal sweet spot, the 19th century.  My most popular century is the 20th with lots of Britten and Richard Strauss contributing a good chunk of the 73 disks.  The 19th does come in second at 58 but it’s only just ahead of the 18th at 51 with strong contributions from Mozart (of course), Handel and Rameau.  Continue reading →

Broken down by age and sex

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The COC board reviews ticket sales data

Broken down by age and sex – that’s what they say happens to statisticians over time but this one retains his fascination with data and will happily torture it in search of a conclusion or three.  In this case the data is contained in an interesting round up of the Canadian Opera Company’s 2011/12 season.

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