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.
Untersuchungen und Deutungen zum Werk Jacques Offenbachs
Jacques Offenbach-Studien 3
Book
Item no.: 582898
English-Waltz
for: Voice, piano
Single edition
Item no.: 307355
Violinsolo nach Motiven aus der Operette "Der Frauenfresser"
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 307237
Item no.: 613571
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Item no.: 275461
Duett (Bella, Pimpinelli), Nr. 11
aus der Operette "Paganini"
for: Voice, piano
Single edition
Item no.: 226903
for: Flute, cello, guitar
Score, Parts
Item no.: 262298
for: Accordion orchestra
Score
Item no.: 222968
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Percussion
Item no.: 220612
for: Zither (5 chords)
Backing sheet
Item no.: 210242
für Bariton und Klavier
for: Voice (baritone), piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 611042
10 Strauss Favourites arranged
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 608890
for: Voice (mezzo-soprano), piano
Music score
Item no.: 601687
Nach den Violine-Soli aus der Operette "Zigeunerliebe"
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 563079
for: Symphonic orchestra
Item no.: 552988
Der Operettenprofessor
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 342665
36 Glanzlichter Der Leichten Muse
for: 4 flutes (quartet)
Item no.: 343922
for: String orchestra
PART ST (4/3/2/2/1)
Item no.: 361551
Band 4
for: Accordion
Item no.: 337363
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 463184
Couplet aus der Operette "Drei alte Schachteln"
for: Voice, piano [guitar/accordion/keyboard]
Item no.: 139152
for: Diatonic accordion
Item no.: 185850
aus der Operette "Der Orlow"
for: Voice, piano
Single part(n)
Item no.: 157045
for: Zither (5 chords)
Backing sheet
Item no.: 150792
for: Zither (6 chords)
Backing sheet
Item no.: 151548
for: String orchestra
PART ST (2/2/1/1/1)
Item no.: 167711
aus "Zigeunerliebe"
for: Voice, piano
Single edition
Item no.: 128207
Duett (Angèle, René), Nr. 10
aus "Der Graf von Luxemburg"
for: Voice, piano
Single edition
Item no.: 128200
10 ausgewählte Melodien aus bekannten Operetten
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 128081
for: Diatonic accordion
Item no.: 134086
for: Zither (5 chords)
Backing sheet
Item no.: 151129
Unterlegblatt für 6-Akkordzither
for: Zither (6 chords)
Backing sheet
Item no.: 151006
for: Zither (5 chords)
Backing sheet
Item no.: 151005
for: Piano
Single part(n)
Item no.: 132346
Lyric book
Item no.: 128173
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 634841
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 432294
for: Salon orchestra
Additional parts
Item no.: 208133
Medley für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 564072
Item no.: 614512
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 183238
Zarzuela forever
With piano accompaniment
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 611468
Reprint of the Chouden Fils, Paris, 1907 edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 638977
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 124814
Operette in drei Akten
for: Solo voices, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 124876
Originale Unterhaltungsmusik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 124773
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 606857
Lyric book
Item no.: 190959
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