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: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 218014
for: 2 voices (ST), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1662
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 905147
for: 5 brass winds
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1165917
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 681462
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 316916
for: Salon orchestra
Piano part for conductor, Parts
Item no.: 309806
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 102720
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392117
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 272516
for: Concert band
Conductors part (C), Parts
Item no.: 1711715
for: 2 voices, piano
Single edition
Item no.: 283502
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 102700
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 137416
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 124818
for: Voice, piano
Single edition
Item no.: 199623
for: Male choir (TTBB); piano ad lib.
Piano score
Item no.: 1664705
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 821121
for: Piano
Item no.: 197387
for: Ensemble in variabler Besetzung
Partitur und Stimmen
Item no.: 268572
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1342769
Bericht über das internationale Symposium anlässlich des 200. Geburtstages von Jacques Offenbach
Beiträge zur Offenbach-Forschung 4
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 1678330
Song from "The Land of Smiles"
for: Voice (soprano), concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1668941
aus "Zigeunerliebe"
for: Salon orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 295426
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 270965
for: String orchestra
PART ST (4/4/3/2/1)
Item no.: 293846
Walzer aus der Operette "Die lustige Witwe"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1667957
Kurzfassung
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1633687
Seine Musik – sein Leben
Biographie
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 275969
Lyric book
Item no.: 154893
Galop infernal aus der Operette "Orpheus in der Unterwelt"
für Piccoloflöte, Oboe und Fagott
for: Piccolo, oboe, bassoon
Score, Parts
Item no.: 662130
for: Salon orchestra
Additional parts
Item no.: 428751
Studienpartitur
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 607648
Klavierpotpourri zum Lubitsch-Stummfilm
for: Piano
Item no.: 370173
Item no.: 613555
Leichte Mischung
for: Electric organ
Music score
Item no.: 127622
aus der Operette 'Gräfin Mariza'
für Gesang und Klavier
for: Voice, piano
Single edition
Item no.: 128186
Muzika Ensemble Music
for: Piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 348548
Lied (Paganini), Nr. 3
aus "Paganini"
for: Voice, piano
Single edition
Item no.: 128155
for: Zither (6 chords)
Backing sheet
Item no.: 150164
Lied und Csárdás/Wiener Hofreitschule
Band 15
Wienerisch für Streichquartett
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 106263
für Orchester in kombinierbarer Besetzung
for: Chamber orchestra [flexible ensemble]
Piano score (conductor)
Item no.: 648977
from "The Gipsy Baron"
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 670450
pour voix de soprano
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 141590
aus der Operette "Das Land des Lächelns"
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1023456
Duet from the operetta "The Bat"
for: 2 voices (ST), concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1666537
from the operetta "The Land of Smiles"
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1665590
Aria from "The Land of Smiles"
for: Voice (tenor), concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1665190
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