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.
for: Piano/Vocal/Chords
Item no.: 1362347
for: Piano/Vocal/Chords
Item no.: 1365223
for: Piano/Vocal/Chords
Item no.: 1365211
for: Piano/Vocal/Chords
Item no.: 1364458
for: Piano/Vocal/Chords
Item no.: 1364308
for: Piano/Vocal/Chords
Item no.: 1365224
for: Piano/Vocal/Chords
Item no.: 1365196
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Item no.: 1365125
for: Piano/Vocal/Chords
Item no.: 1366338
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Item no.: 1365212
for: Lead Sheet
Item no.: 1365225
for: Piano/Vocal/Chords
Item no.: 1365141
for: Piano/Vocal/Chords
Item no.: 1365201
for: Piano/Vocal/Chords
Item no.: 1364486
for: Piano/Vocal/Chords
Item no.: 1364460
for: Piano/Vocal/Chords
Item no.: 1365140
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Item no.: 1364484
for: Piano/Vocal/Chords
Item no.: 1364976
for: Piano/Vocal/Chords
Item no.: 1365213
for: Piano/Vocal/Chords
Item no.: 1365210
for: Lead Sheet
Item no.: 1365202
for: Jazz ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1383901
from ‘H.M.S. Pinafore’
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 722663
from ‘Iolanthe’
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 739674
from ‘The Grand Duke’
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 738429
from ‘The Mikado’
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 747981
from ‘The Sorcerer’
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 759307
from ‘Ruddigore’
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 738428
from ‘The Yeomen of the Guard’
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 722662
from ‘Utopia Limited’
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 722665
from ‘The Pirates of Penzance’
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 732171
from ‘The Pirates of Penzance’
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 722664
from ‘The Mikado’
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 759296
from ‘Patience’
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 732172
from ‘Iolanthe’
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 759309
from ‘H.M.S. Pinafore’
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 759310
from ‘The Gondoliers’
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 722661
from ‘The Mikado’
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 722660
from ‘Princess Ida’
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 722666
from ‘Ruddigore’
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 732173
from ‘The Sorcerer’
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 759304
from ‘The Gondoliers’
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 759282
from "Orpheus in the Underworld"
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 758444
bearbeitet für Violine (Oboe, C-Blockflöte) und Klavier
for: Violin [descant recorder/oboe], piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1974
Auftritt Ollendorfs aus der Operette "Der Bettelstudent"
for: Voice (tenor), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 3273
Couplets des Prinzen Orlofsky aus "Die Fledermaus"
for: Voice (medium), piano
Sheet music, audio files
Item no.: 1396
aus der Operette "Die Fledermaus"
for: 3 voices (SMezT), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1633
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