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Top 50 Opera houses in Italy

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest opera houses in Italy, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. La Scala, Metropolitan Opera and Paris Opera lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 2.1M people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 69k, and the largest, La Scala, reaches around 990k people in Italy. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Italy who actively engage with each opera house, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Italy and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 50, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in Italy who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in Italy. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in Italy, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in Italy. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 Santa Fe Opera 10k 46.3 57.9% Opera house
27 Minnesota Opera 9.6k 34.4 47.2% Opera house
28 Royal Opera House Muscat 8.3k Opera house
29 Opera Atelier 7.5k Opera house
30 Opera Philadelphia 7.1k 38.7 64.6% Opera house
31 Copenhagen Opera House 4.3k Opera house
32 Royal Swedish Opera 3.7k 47.9 77.9% Opera house
33 Opéra National de Lyon 2.7k 39.1 71.6% Opera house
34 Norwegian National Opera and Ballet 1.2k 44.2 80.5% Opera house
35 Cairo Opera House 1.1k 36.3 43.2% Opera house
36 Deutsche Oper am Rhein 860 Opera house
37 Lausanne Opera 780 Opera house
38 Grand Opera House, Belfast 740 38.7 84.1% Opera house
39 Dutch National Opera 674 42.5 67.4% Opera house
40 Buxton Opera House 606 46.9 68.4% Opera house
41 Cologne Opera 470 Opera house
42 Houston Grand Opera 297 43.2 58.6% Opera house
43 Matenrou Opera 190 Opera house
44 West Australian Opera 187 53.4 86.2% Opera house
45 State Opera of South Australia 155 54.0 81.5% Opera house
46 Wolf Trap Opera Company 144 43.0 70.4% Opera house
47 Berlin State Ballet 139 40.6 100.0% Opera house
48 Wire Opera House 100 Opera house
49 Peabody Opera House 68 40.8 70.4% Opera house
50 Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House 67 48.0 77.2% Opera house

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 50 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Italy and ranks each opera house by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest opera house in Italy?

La Scala currently leads with an estimated audience of 990k people in Italy.

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