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.
Kurzfassung
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1633687
Operette in einem Vorspiel und 2 Akten | Reprintausgabe
Text: Victor Léon nach dem Schelmenroman „Der Abentheuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch“ von Hans Jakob Christofell von Grimmelshausen
Reprint der Erstausgabe Verlag Aug. Cranz, Hamburg 1887
for: Voice, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1645849
Großes Stimmungs-Potpourrie nach Melodien aus dem gleichnamigen Singspiel
for: Small wind band
Set of parts
Item no.: 478567
Emmerich Kálmán und die transatlantische Operette
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 472246
Musik - Kultur - Geschichte 3
Book
Item no.: 665292
Ouvertüre für Salonorchester
for: Salon orchestra
Piano conductor, orchestral parts
Item no.: 463332
Ouvertüre für Blasorchester
for: Concert band
Set of parts
Item no.: 184369
Operette in 3 Akten | Reprintausgabe
Text: Alfred Maria Willner und Bernhard Buchbinder
Reprint der Erstausgabe Verlag Emil Berté & Cie, Wien 1897
for: Voice, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1646126
Opera buffo in 2 Teilen und einer szenischen Ouvertüre
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 697645
Ensemble
Strauss Edition Wien / Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 685442
Ensemble
Partitur in den Fassungen A/BC
Strauss Edition Wien / Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 685165
Komische Oper in 3 Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 281948
Ein Beitrag zur Libretto-Forschung im 19. Jahrhundert
Beiträge zur Offenbach-Forschung 3
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 1669921
Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) – eine systematisch-chronologische Bibliographie
Beiträge zur Offenbach-Forschung 1
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 768410
Ein Beitrag zur Libretto-Forschung im 19. Jahrhundert
Beiträge zur Offenbach-Forschung 3
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 174575
ein Johann-Strauß-Operetten-Potpourri für Blechbläserensemble
for: Brass ensemble (10 parts); percussion ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 1681420
Oper/Operette
for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 189291
for: Jazz ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1378563
Großes Potpourri aus der Operette
for: Concert band
Conductors part, set of parts
Item no.: 1013291
Großes Potpourri aus der Operette
for: Concert band
Conductors part, set of parts
Item no.: 1013292
Komische Oper in 3 Akten
Piano reduction
Item no.: 281943
Opéra bouffe en 3 actes et 4 tableaux
3e acte et livrets
Offenbach Edition Keck
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 607377
Goodmusic Concert Classics
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 557940
Opera Buffa in 3 Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 276120
Oper Buffo in 3 Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 200052
Opera buffo in 3 Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 328782
Ouverture
for: Symphonic orchestra
Item no.: 309056
Walzer
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 154169
Flex 5 ShowBlow
for: Flexible wind ensemble (5 voices)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1113022
for: Salon orchestra
Item no.: 485804
Oper/Operette
for: Concert band
Set of parts
Item no.: 1024993
Polka schnell nach Motiven der Operette Die Fledermaus JSGA I/23/10
SET: Harmonie und Streicherstimmen (4/3/3/2/1)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 655361
Opéra-bouffon in 2 Akten und 4 Szenen
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 282561
Potpourri
for: Orchestra
Piano part for conductor, Parts
Item no.: 276313
Potpourri-Paraphrase nach Motiven der Operette "Ein Walzertraum" v. Oscar Straus
for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 266035
Potpourri
for: Concert band
Item no.: 304417
Potpourri
for: Symphonic orchestra
Item no.: 309034
Potpourri
for: Concert band
Item no.: 1652018
(vocal score)
for: Opera
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 663498
Potpourri
for: Orchestra
Piano part for conductor, Parts
Item no.: 1111935
Walzer aus der Operette "Die Fledermaus"op. 367
for: Salon orchestra
Piano part for conductor, Parts
Item no.: 283601
Opéra-bouffe en 3 actes et 4 tableaux
1er et 2e actes
Offenbach Edition Keck
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 607378
aus "Der Zigeunerbaron"
for: Orchestra
Piano part for conductor, Parts
Item no.: 433283
Grosses Potpourri
for: Concert band
Conductors part, set of parts
Item no.: 1013294
for: Jazz ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1380175
for: Youth symphony orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 339732
Full size A4
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1104986
March Format
for: Concert Band/Harmonie/Fanfare
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1104930
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