A visit to Bayreuth coupled with a Ring in Berlin made this year's operatic victor well-nigh inevitable. Mozart, though, was not so far off, with a couple of live 'firsts': Il re pastore and Ascanio in Alba. A somewhat restricted chronological range too, with no Monteverdi, nor indeed anything before Purcell. As usual, I have included concert and staged performances, and anything treated as an opera (e.g. the Komische Oper's staging of Henze's oratorio, Das Floss der Medusa).
11 Wagner
8 Mozart
4 Strauss
2 Bizet, Handel, Puccini
1 Berg, Cherubini, Dvořák, Bushra El-Turk, Henze, Humperdinck,
Janáček,
Korngold, Edward Lambert, Martinů, Mussorgsky, Purcell, Rossini, Saariaho,
Schoenberg, Tchaikovsky
