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.
from "The Merry Widow"
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet); double bass ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1013177
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 301708
Eine Auswahl bekannter Lincke-Melodien
Band 1
for: Piano
Item no.: 102738
Walzer (Erleichtert B-Dur)
for: Accordion
Music score
Item no.: 102353
Walzer aus Die Fledermaus
for: Streichquartett, Kontrabass (ad libitum)
Score, part
Item no.: 464022
Eine Sammlung von alten und neuen Berliner Liedern
Band 1
Band 1
for: Voice, piano
Single edition
Item no.: 102791
aus "Das Land des Lächelns"
für Gesang und Klavier
vereinfachte Ausgabe
for: Voice, piano
Single edition
Item no.: 363298
"Frau Sonne lacht zum Fenster hell herein" - Walzerop. 354
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 348299
Duett (Pauline / Baron) aus der Operette "La vie Parisienne"
for: 2 voices (sbar), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1763
Couplets des Prinzen Orlofsky aus "Die Fledermaus"
for: Voice (low), piano
Sheet music, audio files
Item no.: 1398
for: Voice (tenor), piano
Music score
Item no.: 302372
for: Voice (soprano), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 690979
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 685148
for: soloist (T/Bar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 685137
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 685115
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [piano]
Choir part Tenor/Bass
Item no.: 344743
for: Male choir; piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 181877
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 266250
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score (men voices)
Item no.: 1342202
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Alto
Item no.: 1342547
for: Salon orchestra
Score
Item no.: 578167
for: Opera
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 663498
Lyric book
Item no.: 223964
for: Salon orchestra
Buch
Item no.: 1590162
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Bass 2
Item no.: 262203
for: Piano
Item no.: 356640
for: Piano
Item no.: 356598
from "Orpheus in the Underworld"
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 758444
Die schönsten Melodien in leichter Spielbarkeit
for: Violine (Klavier ad libitum)
Music score
Item no.: 748164
from the operetta "Der Vogelhändler”
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760295
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir book
Item no.: 683429
for: Piano 4 hands
Item no.: 351374
for: Piano; voice ad lib.
Piano reduction
Item no.: 124768
for: Orchestra
Salonorchester-Ergänzung (Zusatzstimmen für großes Orchester)
Item no.: 304256
for: Orchestra
Salonorchester-Ergänzung (Zusatzstimmen für großes Orchester)
Item no.: 294850
Teacher's book
Item no.: 174237
for: 2 violins, viola, cello; double bass ad lib.
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 466241
for: Harp, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 358148
for: Voice, piano
Single edition
Item no.: 283511
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 184593
for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 309067
for: Voice
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 602502
Lyric book
Item no.: 1678487
HeBu Blasorchester Noten / Concert Band
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1684437
for: Narrator, soloists, mixed choir, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1668048
Couplets von Hans Styx aus "Orpheus in der Unterwelt")
for: Voice (tenor), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1137
Ouverture
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 817456
Lied aus der Operette "Wo die Lerche singt" für Salonorchester
for: Salon orchestra
Piano part for conductor, Parts
Item no.: 644607
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