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.
Overture to the Operetta
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 374447
for: Symphonic orchestra
Piano part for conductor, Parts
Item no.: 309033
Piano reduction
Item no.: 128169
for: Voice (bass), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 4027
Operetta in three actes
Allowed reprint (1906, Doblinger, Wien)
spiral-bound
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1203304
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 603586
for: Voice, piano
Single edition
Item no.: 667079
for: Voice
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318153
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 306791
for: Women's choir (SAA) [3 solo voices], piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1977
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 281948
aus der gleichnamigen Operette
for: Salon orchestra
Piano part for conductor, Parts
Item no.: 167812
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 124874
for: Violin [descant recorder/oboe], piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1974
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 607377
Piano reduction
Item no.: 306792
for: Violin, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 159714
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 616224
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 172403
for: Symphonic orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 583541
for: Zither (6 chords)
Backing sheet
Item no.: 152506
for: Piano Reduction
Piano reduction
Item no.: 617023
for: 3 voices (SMezT), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1633
Waltz
from 'Gipsy Princess'
for: Salon orchestra
Piano part for conductor, Parts
Item no.: 128103
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 274068
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 607378
for: Voice (medium), piano
Sheet music, audio files
Item no.: 1396
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 102763
Waltz
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 724267
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 282561
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1556939
Unterlegblatt für 6-Akkordzither
for: Zither (6 chords)
Backing sheet
Item no.: 150793
for: Voice, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 324860
Lyric book
Item no.: 165003
from: Orpheus in the Underworld
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 733228
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 248143
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 444902
Piano reduction
Item no.: 443606
for: Voice, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 430082
for: Salon orchestra
Piano part for conductor, Parts
Item no.: 192603
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 272648
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 124762
Unabridged Beautiful Operatta Arias with the Original Text
for: Piano; voice ad lib.
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 288307
for: Voice, piano
Single edition
Item no.: 169041
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 281951
Csárdás from the operetta "Die Fledermaus"
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Music score
Item no.: 724569
for: Voice (tenor), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 4020
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