Opera world
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| description | Trade journal for musical theater |
| language | German |
| publishing company | The theater publisher - Friedrich Berlin GmbH |
| First edition | 1960 (?) |
| Frequency of publication | per month |
| Sold edition | 10,000 copies |
| Range | 0.020 million readers |
| editor | The theater publisher - Friedrich Berlin GmbH |
| executive Director | Michael Merschmeier |
| Web link | opernwelt.de |
Opernwelt is an international specialist magazine for music theater that appears monthly in Der Theaterverlag - Friedrich Berlin GmbH. The magazine is considered the leading specialist magazine in Europe and is available in all major libraries. The circulation is 10,000 copies, the reach is around 20,000 readers. In addition, a yearbook is published every October. Many of the most well-known music critics in the German-speaking area write for Opernwelt , and articles by foreign-language authors appear regularly.
Every year Opernwelt organizes an international survey of fifty opera critics and, on this basis, publishes the ensembles, artists and ensembles, artists and ensembles that have been recognized as “Opera House of the Year”, “Performance of the Year”, “Singer of the Year” etc. for the past season Productions.
history
The magazine was published for the first time in 1960 by the Deutsches Opern-Verlag, which six young opera enthusiasts founded especially for this purpose. The focus of the first edition was on the Salzburg and Bayreuth festivals . The first editor-in-chief was Otto-Erich Schilling , previously a music critic for the Stuttgarter Zeitung and later head of the opera department of the Süddeutscher Rundfunk. From October 1963, Opernwelt was published by Friedrich Verlag in Velber. From 1964 to 1971 Hans Otto Spingel was editor-in-chief, followed by the Hungarian musicologist Imre Fábian in collaboration with Gerhard Persché . 1982–1993, when the Friedrich-Verlag cooperated with the Swiss publisher Orell Füssli , the headquarters of the editorial office in Zurich. In 1994 the editorial team was brought to Berlin. To 1996, Thomas Voigt editor, from 1996 initiated Bernd Feuchtner and Stephan Mösch the magazine. In 1997 Friedrich Berlin Verlag , which also publishes the magazines Theater heute , Tanz and Bühnentechnische Rundschau , was spun off from Friedrich-Verlag. In 2004, Bernd Feuchtner left, he was followed by Albrecht Thiemann . In 2013 Stephan Mösch accepted a professorship at the Karlsruhe University of Music . He remains active as an author and consultant for the magazine. Wiebke Roloff took his place in the editorial team, who was replaced by Jürgen Otten in 2016.
Content orientation
Readers of the magazine are interested in opera and in the field of music theater. It contains reports on important current performances, portraits of composers and musical personalities, reports on places of musical life and topics from the present and the history of the opera. The service part of the magazine includes CD, DVD and book reviews and a calendar with monthly programs for German and international opera houses.
The web presence of Opernwelt - in the immediate vicinity of the magazines Theater heute and Tanz - is on the website of the theater publisher - Friedrich Berlin GmbH. In an archive, the user has a full-text search in the editions of the last few years.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Media data at der-theaterverlag.de, accessed on August 11, 2017.
- ↑ 50 years of opera world , accessed on March 6, 2013