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2017 web medias retrospective
Who are the 10 artists, composers and performers most present in the web media in 2017, in the press and blogs combined? Which orchestras and venues have received the most media exposure? And the others, those who also count on the classical music stage, even if they are perhaps less mentioned?
What are the best advances compared to 2016, including perhaps the great talents to come? What are these rising performers, those who are progressing year after year?
Here are those who have made the news in classical music and opera in 2017, the most cited in articles and posts, the most popular in the writings of those who listen and review the new releases, attend performances, interview the performers, make us rediscover a little-known work, retrace a venue's history or share a composer's biography. Behind these rankings are current and future trends.
The 50 most popular alive performers and composers
including artists dead this year (2017)
# | Artists | 2017 | 2017/16 | ||
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1. | Simon Rattle | | + 1 | ||
2. | James Levine | | + 1 | ||
3. | Jonas Kaufmann | | + 7 | ||
4. | Daniel Barenboim | | - 3 | ||
5. | Gustavo Dudamel | | + 2 | ||
6. | Anna Netrebko | | |||
7. | Riccardo Muti | | + 1 | ||
8. | Andris Nelsons | | - 4 | ||
9. | Renée Fleming | | + 7 | ||
10. | Jaap van Zweden | | - 5 |
# | Artists | 2017 | 2017/16 | ||
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11. | Martha Argerich | | - 2 | ||
Dmitry Khvorostovsky | | + 34 | |||
Esa-Pekka Salonen | | - 1 | |||
Charles Dutoit | | + 34 | |||
Julia Fischer | | + 2 | |||
Vladimir Jurowski | | + 29 | |||
Philip Glass | | + 20 | |||
Steve Reich | | - 7 | |||
Kirill Petrenko | | + 9 | |||
Valery Gergiev | | - 7 |
# | Artists | 2017 | 2017/16 | ||
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21. | Michael Tilson Thomas | | + 18 | ||
Sakari Oramo | | + 25 | |||
Joyce DiDonato | | - 2 | |||
Thomas Adès | | - 10 | |||
Antonio Pappano | | - 10 | |||
John Eliot Gardiner | | + 37 | |||
Audra McDonald | | ||||
Yannick Nézet-Séguin | | - 8 | |||
John Adams | | + 33 | |||
Mariss Jansons | | + 21 |
# | Artists | 2017 | 2017/16 | ||
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31. | Christine Goerke | | + 62 | ||
Semyon Bychkov | | + 62 | |||
Marin Alsop | | - 2 | |||
Matthias Goerne | | + 6 | |||
Alan Gilbert | | ||||
Nico Muhly | | ||||
Jiří Bělohlávek | | ||||
Bernard Haitink | | - 13 | |||
Daniel Roth | | - 4 | |||
Anne-Sophie Mutter | | + 44 |
# | Artists | 2017 | 2017/16 | ||
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41. | Diana Damrau | | + 39 | ||
Zubin Mehta | | - 20 | |||
Mitsuko Uchida | | + 49 | |||
Daniil Trifonov | | - 21 | |||
Harrison Birtwistle | | ||||
Sonya Yoncheva | | ||||
Krzysztof Penderecki | | + 44 | |||
David Robertson | | + 40 | |||
Bryn Terfel | | + 29 | |||
Nicola Benedetti | |
Variations are appreciated regarding the previous year.
The 50 most popular composers and performers
For the greatest composers and performers below, major variations can be due to special commemorations (centenaries...). [+]
# | Artists | 2017 | 2017/16 | ||
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1. | Ludwig van Beethoven | | + 1 | ||
2. | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | | - 1 | ||
3. | Johann Sebastian Bach | | |||
4. | Gustav Mahler | | |||
5. | Johannes Brahms | | |||
6. | Richard Wagner | | |||
7. | Franz Schubert | | |||
8. | Joseph Haydn | | + 4 | ||
9. | Leonard Bernstein | | + 18 | ||
10. | Frédéric Chopin | | + 7 |
# | Artists | 2017 | 2017/16 | ||
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11. | Robert Schumann | | - 3 | ||
George Frideric Handel | | + 1 | |||
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | | - 2 | |||
Dmitri Shostakovich | | + 2 | |||
Benjamin Britten | | + 4 | |||
Giuseppe Verdi | | - 6 | |||
James Levine | | + 9 | |||
Claude Debussy | | ||||
Maurice Ravel | | + 2 | |||
Edward Elgar | | + 5 |
# | Artists | 2017 | 2017/16 | ||
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21. | Igor Stravinsky | | - 6 | ||
Sergei Rachmaninoff | | ||||
Felix Mendelssohn | | - 3 | |||
Gioachino Rossini | | + 12 | |||
Giacomo Puccini | | - 1 | |||
Antonio Vivaldi | | + 8 | |||
Sergei Prokofiev | | - 4 | |||
Pierre Boulez | | - 19 | |||
Arnold Schoenberg | | + 3 | |||
Jean Sibelius | |
# | Artists | 2017 | 2017/16 | ||
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31. | William Shakespeare | | - 17 | ||
Franz Liszt | | - 4 | |||
Samuel Barber | | + 7 | |||
Van Cliburn | | ||||
Camille Saint-Saëns | | + 15 | |||
Alban Berg | | + 1 | |||
Claudio Monteverdi | | + 43 | |||
Herbert von Karajan | | - 7 | |||
Ralph Vaughan Williams | | - 1 | |||
Aaron Copland | | - 1 |
# | Artists | 2017 | 2017/16 | ||
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41. | Hector Berlioz | | - 12 | ||
Anton Bruckner | | - 1 | |||
Olivier Messiaen | | ||||
Béla Bartók | | + 2 | |||
Francis Poulenc | | + 6 | |||
Arturo Toscanini | | ||||
Georg Solti | | + 13 | |||
Richard Strauss | | - 6 | |||
George Gershwin | | - 5 | |||
Glenn Gould | | + 7 |
An exclusive analysis based on the press articles and blog posts indexed by soclassiq.
2013 . . . 2017
120000+ articles & posts (EN)
The 30 most popular orchestras and ensembles
including opera companies
# | Orchestras | 2017 | 2017/16 | |
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1. | Metropolitan Opera | | ||
2. | London Symphony Orchestra | | + 1 | |
3. | New York Philharmonic Orchestra | | - 1 | |
4. | San Francisco Opera | | + 12 | |
5. | Berlin Philharmonic | | - 1 | |
6. | Madison Symphony Orchestra | | - 1 | |
7. | San Francisco Symphony | | + 2 | |
8. | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | | - 1 | |
9. | London Philharmonic Orchestra | | + 1 | |
10. | Cleveland Orchestra | | + 5 |
# | Orchestras | 2017 | 2017/16 | |
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11. | Detroit Symphony Orchestra | | + 23 | |
Philadelphia Orchestra | | - 1 | ||
Madison Opera | | - 1 | ||
Lyric Opera of Chicago | | + 17 | ||
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | | - 9 | ||
Pacific Symphony | | + 24 | ||
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | | + 6 | ||
Boston Symphony Orchestra | | - 5 | ||
Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra | | - 2 | ||
Czech Philharmonic | | + 36 |
# | Orchestras | 2017 | 2017/16 | |
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21. | Philharmonia Orchestra | | + 5 | |
Houston Grand Opera | | |||
Seattle Symphony | | + 25 | ||
English National Opera | | - 16 | ||
BBC Symphony Orchestra | | - 4 | ||
Pro Arte Quartet | | - 4 | ||
Opera North | | - 2 | ||
Chicago Symphony Orchestra | | - 8 | ||
Minnesota Orchestra | | |||
Houston Symphony | |
The 30 most popular venues
# | Venues | 2017 | 2017/16 | ||
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1. | BBC Proms (London) | Festival | | ||
2. | Vienna State Opera house (Innere Stadt) | Opera house | | + 6 | |
3. | Carnegie Hall (Manhattan) | Concert hall | | - 1 | |
4. | Royal Albert Hall (City of Westminster) | Concert hall | | - 1 | |
5. | La Scala (Milan) | Opera house | | + 2 | |
6. | Bayreuth Festival | Festival | | - 1 | |
7. | Wigmore Hall (City of Westminster) | Concert hall | | - 1 | |
8. | Royal Opera House (City of Westminster) | Opera house | | + 2 | |
9. | Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) | Concert hall | | - 5 | |
10. | Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg-Mitte) | Opera house | | + 30 |
# | Venues | 2017 | 2017/16 | ||
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11. | Tanglewood (Lenox) | Festival | | - 2 | |
Bolshoi Theatre (Tverskoy District) | Opera house | | - 1 | ||
Royal Festival Hall (London Borough of Lambeth) | Concert hall | | - 1 | ||
Salzburg Festival | Festival | | + 1 | ||
Mariinsky Theatre (Saint Petersburg) | Opera house | | - 1 | ||
Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles) | Concert hall | | + 2 | ||
Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht | Festival | | - 4 | ||
Deutsche Oper Berlin (Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf) | Opera house | | - 1 | ||
Gewandhaus (Zentrum) | Concert hall | | + 3 | ||
David Geffen Hall (Upper West Side) | Concert hall | | + 4 |
# | Venues | 2017 | 2017/16 | ||
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21. | Wisconsin Union Theater (Madison) | Concert hall | | - 2 | |
Oregon Bach Festival (Eugene) | Festival | | |||
Berlin State Opera (Berlin-Mitte) | Opera house | | |||
Washington National Opera (Washington, D.C.) | Opera house | | + 6 | ||
War Memorial Opera House (San Francisco) | Opera house | | + 35 | ||
Memorial Opera House (Valparaiso) | Opera house | | + 32 | ||
Gran Teatre del Liceu (El Raval) | Opera house | | + 29 | ||
Teatro Real (Palacio) | Opera house | | |||
Komische Oper (Berlin) | Opera house | | + 16 | ||
Mostly Mozart Festival (New York City) | Festival | | - 3 |
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Providing these rankings is hard work. Many hours were required to design and develop an approach based exclusively on a textual analysis of the indexed articles and adapted to the classical music and opera context. These rankings are not the result of personal preferences or artistic opinions.
These are the best results to date. Further improvements to the algorithm may have an impact on the rankings.
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