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: Accordion
Music score
Item no.: 102280
for: Accordion; voice ad lib.
Single edition
Item no.: 128159
for: 4 trombones (quartet)
Sheet music
Item no.: 590863
for Flute Choir
for: 4 flutes (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 674243
for: 4 trombones (quartet)
Sheet music
Item no.: 1312898
for: 4 violins, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 665068
for: Brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 675451
for: Accordion
Item no.: 407437
for: Violine (Klavier ad libitum)
Item no.: 287973
Book (Hardcover), CD
Item no.: 580174
for: Piano 4 hands
Item no.: 582088
"Eine Party am Weihnachtsabend" oder "Das Unglück von Rascaeta" für Salonorchester
Opereta de Argentinia
for: Salon orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 684262
Klassik
for: Voice (baritone), piano
Buch
Item no.: 136823
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 192934
aus der Operette "Der fliegende Rittmeister", mit Orchester oder Klavier
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1652761
for: 2 euphoniums
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1073230
for: Zither (5 chords)
Backing sheet
Item no.: 150758
for: Zither (6 chords)
Backing sheet
Item no.: 150759
for: Zither (5 chords)
Backing sheet
Item no.: 151023
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 564133
for two Flutes and Piano
Southern Music
for: 2 flutes, piano
Piano score, Solo parts
Item no.: 673639
Die Lebensgeschichte des Fritz Oliven
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 564292
for: Mixed choir; piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 604356
Operette in drei Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), narrator, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 197177
for: Narrator, soloists, mixed choir, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1668025
Aria from "The Land of Smiles"
for: Voice (soprano), concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1665586
to the operetta "The Land of Smiles"
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1665566
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 132898
correlates with Yamaha Band Student 2, page 20
Yamaha Band Series
for: Winds class [youth concert band]
Score, Parts
Item no.: 586450
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1042876
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 943551
Lyric book
Item no.: 554437
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 798382
for: Zither (5 chords)
Backing sheet
Item no.: 151041
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 1342544
for: Salon orchestra
Buch
Item no.: 335625
for: Salon orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 313218
for: Flexible Instrumentation
Score, Parts
Item no.: 613821
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 697646
Book
Item no.: 665292
from Millocker's operettas
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 752243
final chorus from the opera "Die Zauberflöte“
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760300
Waltz
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 731525
from "Der Zigeunerbaron"
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 731248
Die schönsten Melodien in leichter Spielbarkeit
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 740274
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [piano]
Piano score
Item no.: 301712
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 124765
for: Piano, Trombone
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1613014
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