The Enduring Success of Italian Opera

 

The Opera has been the most successful Italian art form for more than a century with a growing audience year after year all over the world. Operas sung in Italian continue to be the most represented operas world wide, acclaimed by a growing audience on hundreds of stages across America. 

 

The Opera America Organization reported that during the 2009-2010 season, one hundred twenty-two opera companies presented over a thousand performances to an audience of about 6 million people who attended at least one live or broadcasted opera performance in US and Canada.

 

The most frequently produced operas in the 2010-2011 season reported by Opera America Organization were:

Puccini's La bohème

Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro

Puccini's Madame Butterfly

Mozart's The Magic Flute

Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment

Puccini's Tosca

Verdi's La traviata

Puccini's Turandot

Bizet's Carmen

Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor