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DVD of the month

The Copenhagen Ring - winner of The Gramophone Award 2009 (DVD)

Recording of the month

Kirsten Flagstad: Volume 1, The Early Recordings 1914-1941

 


Important years in Richard Wagner's life

1813 born in Leipzig
1834 Die Feen completed
1843 Holländer premiere
1845 Tannhäuser premiere
1850 Lohengrin premiere
1852 text of Rheingold and Walküre
1854 Das Rheingold completed
1856 Die Walküre completed
1859 Tristan completed
1865 Tristan premiere in Munich
1868 Meistersinger premiere
1869 Das Rheingold premiere
1870 Die Walküre premiere
1871 Siegfried completed
1874 Götterdämmerung completed
1876 First Festival in Bayreuth
1882 Parsifal premiere
1883 Wagner dies in Venice

 

Web Statistics Wagneropera.net 2009

The top 20 most visted pages on Wagneropera.net 2009

  1. Front page
  2. Bayreuth Festival 2009
  3. Wagnerians recommend Richard Wagner on CD or DVD
  4. Bayreuth Festival (Richard Wagner-Festspiele)
  5. Der Ring des Nibelungen
  6. Tristan und Isolde
  7. How to get tickets for the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth
  8. Parsifal
  9. Richard Wagner's music dramas on DVD
  10. Die Walküre
  11. Stefan Herheim's production of Parsifal at Bayreuth
  12. Das Rheingold
  13. Der Ring des Nibelungen on DVD
  14. Tristan und Isolde on DVD
  15. Der Ring des Nibelungen (DVD): Harry Kupfer, Daniel Barenboim, John Tomlinson, Anne Evans
  16. Richard Wagner Calendar 2009
  17. Tristan und Isolde (DVD): Patrice Chéreau (2007), Daniel Barenboim, Waltraud Meier, Ian Storey
  18. The Copenhagen Ring (DVD): Kasper Bech Holten, Michael Schønwandt, Royal Danish Opera
  19. Isolde's Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
  20. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Referring sites (sites that link to Wagneropera.net)

Of the sites that are linking to Wagneropera.net, the Wagner blog is by far the one generating most traffic. Important are also Wikipedia, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. Also the Norwegian sister site Wagneropera.no and blogs like Mostly Opera, Intermezzo, Boulezian and Parterre are visible in the statistics for sites that generate some traffic.

Judged by user behaviour, the "best" visitors come from Wagneropera.no. They visit three times as many pages per visit than visitors from Parterre.com. They also spend more than 4 minutes more per visit than the Parterre.som visitors. Visitors from the Intermezzo blog are generally motivated and visit 3.88 pages per visit. This fades to nothing compared to visitors from The Royal Opera House Homepage with more than 20 pages per visit in average. Unfortunately the number of visitors are few from ROH, so they shouldn't be paid much attention to for the time being.

Visits 2009: the trends

The actual number of visitors I cannot reveal, but the tendency and comparison with last year I can share with you. The traffic makes a big jump when the Bayreuth Festival starts. There is a nice slow rice in traffic, and this is part of the strategy.

Visits 2009 (blue line) compared to previous year (green line)

Keywords used in search engines (sorted by frequency) resulting in a visit to Wagneropera.net

1.  bayreuth festival 2009
2.  bayreuth festival
3.  bayreuth 2009
4.  wagner opera
5.  bayreuth festival 2010
6.  irene theorin
7.  wagneropera
8.  stefan herheim
9.  christopher ventris
10.  festival de bayreuth 2009
11.  bayreuth
12.  johanna meier
13.  wagneropera.net
14.  festival bayreuth 2009
15.  albert dohmen
16.  katharina wagner
17.  waltraud meier
18.  kwangchul youn
19.  nadine secunde
20.  wagner operas
21.  bayreuth tickets
22.  lisbeth balslev
23.  iréne theorin
24.  wagner festival
25.  franz hawlata

The main reason most of these keywords generate traffic to Wagneropera.net is that the site ranks relatively well on Google.com for these search phrases.

Geography - where do the visitors come from?

1. United States (almost twice as many as Germany)
2. Germany
3. United Kingdom
4. France
5. Spain
6. Italy
7. Norway
8. Canada
9. Netherlands
10. Japan
11. Sweden
12. Austria
13. Australia
14. Hungary
15. Denmark
16. Brazil
17. Belgium
18. Switzerland
19. Poland
20. Greece
21. Russia
22. Finland
23. Ireland
24. Argentina
25. Portugal

If the average number of pages visited is considered a sign of a "good" visitor, the French visitors are "better" than the Americans since they visit 3.79 pages in average, while the average pages an Americans will visit is 3.08. The visitors from Spain are even more passionate with an average of 4.00 pages per visit.

 

 

 

 

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