Operetta is the vital link between Opera and the Musical, it originated in Paris, and became highly popular in London and Vienna. Browse our sheet music and scores, and explore all the wonderful operettas on offer with Stretta Music today!
In Paris in the middle of the 19th century, operetta, which is shorter and lighter than ’serious opera’, developed out of the highly popular opera comique. This new form, consisting of frivolous parodies of bel canto opera and Meyerbeer’s grand opéra, and contemporary society, was first penned by Jacques Offenbach.
In Vienna, news of Offenbach’s success spread quickly, and it inspired composers like Johann Strauss II to take up the call, and the first great Viennese operetta was his “Die Fledermaus”. In contrast to the French can-can, the Viennese operettas are famous for their Waltzes. As the operetta grew in popularity, composers tried to reach the more affluent audience, and operetta soon became less frivolous, and more political, reflecting the rise of nationalism in the country.
In London, 1871, theatre manager Richard D’Oyly Carte, seeing the developments on the continent, brought together the literary and musical talents of W.S Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan, to form the great operetta duo Gilbert & Sullivan. Their operettas were so popular, that ten years later, he built the Savoy Theatre will the sole purpose of producing Gilbert & Sullivan operettas.
In Germany, the Bavarian operettas, and the Berlin operettas were very popular, reaching their high point with Paul Abraham and his “Viktoria und ihr Husar” in 1929. After the National Socialists took power, his extremely successful and popular works were labelled ’degenerate’, and were struck from the repertoire.
Towards the end of the first half of the 20th century, many musicians left Europe for the USA, and they took with them all the joys and experience of operetta, and a new genre was born, the Musical.
Großes Potpourri
for: Concert band
Set of parts
Item no.: 339078
aus "Die lustige Witwe"
for: Voice, piano
Single edition
Item no.: 296240
Potpourri
for: Concert band
Item no.: 304417
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392296
op. 411
for: für Klavier, Harmonium und Streichquartett
Score
Item no.: 444978
Potpourri
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 281974
Operette in 3 Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 281944
für 2 Singstimmen und Klavier
for: 2 voices, piano
Score
Item no.: 283500
Operette
Lyric book
Item no.: 283375
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 283366
Ein Repertoire unvergänglicher Melodien, Band II
for: Accordion
Music score
Item no.: 306235
Music Minus One Voice
for: Voice
Buch + CD
Item no.: 362527
Beliebte Melodien (leicht gesetzt)
for: Piano
Item no.: 356470
Ouvertüre
for: Violin, piano
Single edition
Item no.: 356383
Polka-Mazurka
for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 358151
Polka française für Orchester - 2. Auflage
Partitur in den Fassungen AB/C
Strauss Edition Wien / Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 688929
Ensemble
Partitur in den Fassungen A/B
Strauss Edition Wien / Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 685722
Das wär' kein rechter Schifferknecht (Schifferchor) · Jeden Tag Müh' und Plag' (Nr. 1)
Klavierauszug in den Fassungen Ar/B-1/BC
Strauss Edition Wien / Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 685174
Arie des Caramello
Klavierauszüge in den Fassungen A und B
Strauss Edition Wien / Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe
for: Voice (tenor), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 685161
Chor und Couplets des Caramello
Partitur in den Fassungen A/B
Strauss Edition Wien / Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe
for: 2 soloists (TT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 685143
Chor und Couplets des Caramello
Klavierauszug in den Fassungen A/B
Strauss Edition Wien / Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe
for: 2 soloists (TT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 685135
Arie des Homonay mit Chor - Nr. 12a aus "Der Zigeunerbaron"
Strauss Edition Wien / Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe
for: Soloist (baritone), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 685126
Entreact und Ensemble
Strauss Edition Wien / Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 685104
Operette in 3 Akten - Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe - Serie I/2/09
Strauss Edition Wien / Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 684816
Marsch - Nr. 19a aus "Eine Nacht in Venedig"
Partitur in der Fassung AB
Strauss Edition Wien / Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 690981
Polka schnell nach Motiven der Operette Die Fledermaus JSGA I/23/1
Wiener Institut für Strauss-Forschung
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 649836
op. 136
for: Concert band
Stimmensatz
Item no.: 1111877
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 916383
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 1617063
for: Oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon
Set of parts
Item no.: 135718
aus "Die Fledermaus"
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 131233
Textbuch der Gesänge
Operette in 3 Bildern
Lyric book
Item no.: 167265
Walzerlied aus "Rund um die Liebe"
for: Voice, piano
Single edition
Item no.: 277833
for: Salon orchestra
Item no.: 190966
für Bläserquintett
Potpourri aus F. Lehárs "Die lustige Witwe"
for: 5 woodwinds (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 207312
für Bläserquintett
for: 5 woodwinds (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 207184
aus "Der Zigeunerbaron"op. 418
for: Salon-Ensemble
Score
Item no.: 113442
for: Electric organ
Music score
Item no.: 102928
Walzer (Orig.)
for: Accordion
Music score
Item no.: 102165
aus der Operette "Gasparone"
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1746
aus der Operette "Gasparone"
for: Trumpet (B-flat), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1749
Couplets des Prinzen Orlofsky aus "Die Fledermaus"
for: Voice (high), piano
Sheet music, audio files
Item no.: 1397
Couplets des Prinzen Orlofsky aus "Die Fledermaus"
for: Voice (low), piano
Sheet music, audio files
Item no.: 1398
Die schönsten Melodien in leichter Spielbarkeit
for: Violine (Klavier ad libitum)
Music score
Item no.: 748164
for: Accordion orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1664815
from the operetta "Der Vogelhändler”
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760295
Overture to the Operetta
for: Symphonic orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 1654106
Duett (Pauline / Baron) aus der Operette "La vie Parisienne"
for: 2 voices (sbar), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1763
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