Music
Operetta
Operetta (Italian, plural: operette) is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter.
Operetta in Austria was strongly influenced by France and especially Offenbach but the most significant composer of operetta in the was Johann Strauss, Jr.
It was his third operetta Die Fledermaus (1874) which became the most performed operetta in the world and remained his most popular stage work. Its libretto was based on a comedy written by Offenbach's librettists.
In all, he wrote 16 operettas. His operettas, waltzes, polkas, and marches often have a strongly Viennese style and his great popularity is as strong today as ever.
This Viennese tradition was continued by Franz von Supp é, Franz Lehar, Oscar Strauss, Carl Zeller, Karl Ziehrer, Leo Fall, Richard Heuberger, Edmund Eylser, Ralph Benatsky, Robert Stolz, Emmerich Kalman and Nici Dostal amongst others.
There are concerts daily featuring one or another of these composers in Vienna today. Several festivals in major towns and cities annually commemorate this wonderful music.
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