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For opera performances alone, this even went as high as 99.7 percent.
Meanwhile, the 584,974 tickets sold throughout the 2010-2011 season brought in some 29.53 million euros ($42.78 million).
"These figures are fantastic and show the attachment of the Viennese audience -- one of the most demanding in the world -- to the Staatsoper, as well as its agreement with the renewal process that began 10 months ago," Frenchman Dominique Meyer, who took over as opera director on September 1, 2010, told AFP.
Even the long neglected ballet company has seen a massive revival, with the Staatsoper filled to 99.9 percent of capacity for Rudolf Nureyev's "Don Quixote" earlier this year.
The Staatsoper has practically been under French rule since Meyer took over in September from the Romanian-born Ioan Holender, who ruled over the opera house for 18 years.
A compatriot, former Paris Opera etoile Manuel Legris, is now in charge of the ballet company, while musical director Franz Welser-Moest, an Austrian, completes the trio.
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Meanwhile, the 584,974 tickets sold throughout the 2010-2011 season brought in some 29.53 million euros ($42.78 million).
"These figures are fantastic and show the attachment of the Viennese audience -- one of the most demanding in the world -- to the Staatsoper, as well as its agreement with the renewal process that began 10 months ago," Frenchman Dominique Meyer, who took over as opera director on September 1, 2010, told AFP.
Even the long neglected ballet company has seen a massive revival, with the Staatsoper filled to 99.9 percent of capacity for Rudolf Nureyev's "Don Quixote" earlier this year.
The Staatsoper has practically been under French rule since Meyer took over in September from the Romanian-born Ioan Holender, who ruled over the opera house for 18 years.
A compatriot, former Paris Opera etoile Manuel Legris, is now in charge of the ballet company, while musical director Franz Welser-Moest, an Austrian, completes the trio.
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