Operetta Style Overview

Operetta Music Description

operetta, musical-dramatic production similar in structure to a light opera but characteristically having a romantically sentimental plot interspersed with songs, orchestral music, and rather elaborate dancing scenes, along with spoken dialogue.

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  You Do Something To Me
  Mario Lanza
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  Die Fledermaus (Highlights)
  J.Strauss*, Gueden*, Kmentt*, Köth*, Resnik*, Wächter*, Berry*, Zampieri*, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra*, State Opera Chorus*, Karajan*
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  Be My Love
  Placido Domingo
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  Candide
  Leonard Bernstein
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  Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates Of Penzance
  Gilbert & Sullivan With Kevin Kline, Estelle Parsons, Linda Ronstadt, George Rose, Rex Smith
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  Treasury Of Great Operettas
  Various
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  Die Fledermaus
  Johann Strauss* - Julia Varady*, Lucia Popp, Hermann Prey, Iwan Rebroff*, René Kollo, Bernd Weikl, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Carlos Kleiber

Operetta Artists

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  Jacques Offenbach
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  Robert Stolz
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  Rudolf Schock
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  Franz Lehár
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  Emmerich Kálmán
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  Gilbert & Sullivan
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  Johann Strauss Jr.

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  For You, Bright Eyes / My Hero
  Inez Barbour, John Young (12)
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  Chimes Of Normandy Selection / Poet And Peasant Overture
  Arthur Pryor's Band
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  Ballsirenen-Walzer
  Unknown Artist
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  Trovatore—Miserere
  Miss Stevenson*, Mr. Macdonough*, Victor Male Chorus, Victor Orchestra And Chimes*
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  "Merry Widow" Waltz
  Victor Dance Orchestra
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  Fledermaus-Walzer
  Kaiser Franz-Garde-Gren.-Regt.*
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  The Merry Widow Waltz
  Marcella Sembrich

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  H.M.S. Pinafore (Complete With Dialogue)
  Gilbert & Sullivan - D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
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  Die Herzogin Von Chicago
  Kálmán* - RS Berlin*, Richard Bonynge
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  Die Goldenen Zwanziger Jahre - Das Dokument Einer Erregenden Zeit
  Various
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  Anne Sofie Von Otter Sings Offenbach
  Offenbach* - Anne Sofie Von Otter, Les Musiciens Du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
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  Hommage À Luis Mariano (C'est Magnifique!)
  Roberto Alagna
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  The Rose Of Persia
  Arthur Sullivan* - Morrison* · Stuart* · Sharpe* · Southwark Voices · The Hanover Band* · Tom Higgins (4)
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  Le Postillon de Lonjumeau
  John Aler, June Anderson, Jean-Philippe Lafont, François Le Roux, Ensemble Choral Jean Laforge, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo*, Thomas Fulton, Adam*