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 ‘Iolanthe’
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 759309
from ‘H.M.S. Pinafore’
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 759310
"Das wär kein rechter Schifferknecht" aus "Der Zigeunerbaron"
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) und Klavier
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 782558
from the opera "La Traviata”
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760293
from the opera "Der Freischütz"
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760294
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 opera "Der Evangelimann”
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 747754
from: Orpheus in the Underworld
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 759023
from the opera "Die Fledermaus"
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760291
from the opera "Carmen”
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 732569
from ‘The Sorcerer’
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 759304
"Hurra, die Schlacht mitgemacht" aus "Der Zigeunerbaron"
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) und Klavier
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 782583
from ‘The Gondoliers’
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 759282
for: Lead Sheet
Item no.: 1365202
Christrose
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 695349
Ava
Single part Horn 1 (E-flat)
Item no.: 300696
Ava
for: Trombone
Item no.: 300695
Lieder, Songs & Evergreens
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 159545
Couplets von Hans Styx aus "Orpheus in der Unterwelt")
for: Voice (tenor), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1137
Foxtrott
aus der Operette „Maske in Blau“
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 331465
for: MCH (BARTB)
Choir score
Item no.: 492163
Single part
Item no.: 150948
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3, 4
Item no.: 149912
for: Male choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 634863
Frühling sein für Männerchor und Klavier
Chorpartitur
for: CHORMUSIK MÄNNERCHOR MIT BEGLEITUNG WELTLICH EINZELN
Choir score
Item no.: 1610599
for: Male choir, piano
Item no.: 346898
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3, 4
Item no.: 126329
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1659869
Single part
Item no.: 126325
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 1, 2
Item no.: 149909
Single part
Item no.: 126330
for: Choral
Item no.: 1376098
for: Choral
Item no.: 1374896
for: Women's choir, piano
Item no.: 331437
Terzett aus der Operette "The Mikado or the Town of Titipu"
for: Women's choir (SAA) [3 solo voices], piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1977
Aus der Operette "Gasparone"
Leuckart Song-Blatt - Chormusik zur Unterhaltung
for: Male choir; piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 347039
for: Mixed choir; piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 492402
für gemischten Chor mit Orchester oder Klavier
aus der Operette "Die lustige Witwe"
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 308268
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 581616
aus der Operette "Der fliegende Rittmeister"
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 673967
aus der Operette "Boccaccio"
for: Choir
Choir part Tenor 1
Item no.: 308442
für Männerchor und Klavier oder Orchester
Tage und Jahre vergehen im Winde – Can Can aus der Operette Orpheus in der Unterwelt
for: Male choir (TTBB), organ [orchestra]
Choir score
Item no.: 675320
Choir part Tenor 1, 2
Item no.: 343757
aus der Operette "Boccaccio", gem Chor Orchester (Klav)
for: Choir
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 644590
Alto saxophone
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Sheet music
Item no.: 1582309
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