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Opera world is an international magazine for music theater, theater in the publishing monthly - appears Friedrich Berlin GmbH. The magazine is considered a leading trade magazine in Europe and is conducted in all major libraries. The circulation is 10,000 copies, which reach about 20,000 readers. In addition, a yearbook is published each October. Many of the most renowned music critic of the German-speaking countries enrolled and write for the operatic world, occasionally also appear articles of foreign-language authors.

Organized every year opera world, an international survey of opera critics and published on this basis in the fall for the previous season as Opera House of the Year, Performance of the Year, Singer of the Year, etc. excellent ensembles, artists and productions.

History

The magazine first appeared in 1960 in the German opera -Verlag, had the six opera enthusiastic young men founded especially for this purpose. Focus of the first edition were the Salzburg and Bayreuth Festival. First chief editor was Otto -Erich Schilling, before music critic of the Stuttgarter Zeitung and later head of the opera department of the South German Radio. From October 1963 publisher appeared in the opera world in Friedrich Velber. From 1964 to 1971 Hans Otto Spingel was editor in chief, he was succeeded by the Hungarian musicologist Imre Fabian. 1982-1993, as the Friedrich -Verlag cooperated with the Swiss publishing Orell Füssli, was the seat of the editorial Zurich. In 1994, the editorial was brought to Berlin. By 1996, Thomas Voigt was the editor, from 1996 initiated Bernd Feuchtner and Stephan Mösch the magazine. In 1997, the Friedrich Berlin imprint, which the magazines theater today, dance and opera world out there, was carved out of the Friedrich -Verlag. 2004 retired from Bernd Feuchtner, he was succeeded by Albrecht Thiemann. 2013 took Stephan Mösch a professorship at the University of Music Karlsruhe. He remains as an author and consultant for the magazine operates. In its place Wiebke Roloff joined the editorial staff.

Content focus

Readers of the magazine are interested in opera and musical theater professionals. It contains reports on important and current performances, portraits of composers and musicians, reports to places of musical life and issues of the present and the history of opera. The service part of the magazine include CD, DVD and book reviews and a calendar with monthly Opera repertoires of German and international opera houses.

The website of opera world - today and dance in the immediate vicinity of the journals Theatre - located kultiversum on the website, which is also from The Theater Verlag - Friedrich Berlin GmbH operates. In an archive the user is a full-text search in the editions of the last five years are available.