Here is a selection of Top 10s for those who like lists and statistics. Where there is more than one item on a single line it means that each item has the same number of appearances.

Top 10 contemporary composers

1. Arvo Pärt
2. John Williams
3. John Adams
4. György Kurtág
5. Steve Reich
6. Philip Glass
7. James MacMillan
8. Jörg Widmann
9. Luca Luciano
10. Eric Whitacre

 

Top 10 contemporary works

1= Nunc dimittis (Arvo Pärt)
1= Film music from Star Wars (John Williams)
3. The Deer’s Cry (Arvo Pärt)
4. Danzón no.2 (Arturo Márquez)
5. Scheherazade.2, (John Adams)
6= Fratres, (Arvo Pärt)
6= Short Ride in a Fast Machine, (John Adams)
8= Con brio (Jörg Widmann) 
8= Orawa (Wojciech Kilar)
10. Other film music (John Williams)

 

Busiest 10 opera houses

1. Hungarian State Opera
2. Mariinsky Opera
3. Opera Australia
4. Metropolitan Opera
5. Opéra de Paris
6. Wiener Staatsoper
7. Zurich Opera
8. Bayerische Staatsoper
9. Oper Frankfurt
10. Royal Opera

 

Busiest choirs (in concert)

1. Cappella Amsterdam
2. Coro dell’Academia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
3. Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien
4. Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
5. Chorus of Emmanuel Music
6. Monteverdi Choir
7. Groot Omroepkoor
8. K&K Opernchor
9. Rundfunkchor Berlin
10. Swedish Radio Choir

 

Busiest voices

Sopranos

1. Alžběta Poláčková
2. Irina Lungu
3. Jana Sibera
4. Adela Zaharia
5. Heidi Elisa Meier
6. Maria Agresta
7. Liudmyla Monastyrska
8. Louise Alder
9. Diana Damrau
10. Elizabeth Reiter


Mezzo-sopranos

1. Clémentine Margaine
2. Stéphanie d’Oustrac
3= Ekaterina Semenchuk
3= Véronica Simeoni
5. Luciana D’Intino
6. Tichina Vaughn
7. Marta Swiderska
8. Sarah Pring
9. Anita Rachvelishvili
10. Ekaterina Gubanova

 

Countertenors

1. Clint van der Linde
2. David Hansen
3. Tim Mead
4. Hagen Matzeit
5= Iestyn Davies
5= Valer Barna-Sabadus
5= Franco Fagioli
8= Rupert Enticknap
9= Mathias Vidal
10= Philippe Jaroussky
10= Matthew Shaw

 

Tenors

1. Jaroslav Březina
2. Florian Simson
3. Aleš Briscein
4= Gregory Kunde
4= Riccardo Massi
6. Fabio Sartori
7. Piero Pretti
8. Graeme Macfarlane
9. Martin Šrejma
10. Simeon Esper

 

Baritones

1. Plácido Domingo
2= Dalibor Jenis
2= Svatopluk Sem
4. Ludovic Tézier
5. András Kiss
6. Željko Lučić
7= Lajor Geiger
7= Jiří Hájek
7= Ben McAteer
7= Gyula Orendt

 

Basses

1. Roberto Tagliavini
2. Rafal Siwek
3. Marko Mimica
4. Jiří Sulženko
5. František Zahradníček
6. Alexander Tsymbalyuk
7= Krisztián Cser
7= Georg Zeppenfeld
9. Derek Welton
10. Kwangchul Youn