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Die Fledermaus
comic operetta in three acts by Johann Strauss II
The Merry Widow
operetta composed by Franz Lehár, libretto by Viktor Léon and Leo Stein
The Gypsy Baron
operetta composed by Johann Strauss II
The Gipsy Princess
operetta by Emmerich Kálmán
The Land of Smiles
1929 operetta by Franz Lehár, revised version of his 1923 operetta Die gelbe Jacke
Countess Maritza
operetta by Emmerich Kálmán
Eine Nacht in Venedig
opera composed by Johann Strauss II
Die Bajadere
opera by Emmerich Kálmán
Der Graf von Luxemburg
opera by Franz Lehár
Die Zirkusprinzessin
opera by Emmerich Kálmán
Wiener Blut
operetta by Johann Strauss II
Leichte Kavallerie
operetta by Franz von Suppé
Der Bettelstudent
operetta in three acts by Carl Millöcker (1882)
Boccaccio
operetta in three acts by Franz von Suppé
Der Vogelhändler
operetta by Carl Zeller
The White Horse Inn
1930 operetta by Ralph Benatzky
Ball at the Savoy
operetta by Paul Abraham
Der Zarewitsch
operetta by Franz Lehár
Paganini
operetta by Franz Lehár
The Flower of Hawaii
operetta
Die schöne Galathee
opera by Franz von Suppé
Das Veilchen vom Montmartre
opera by Emmerich Kálmán
Gipsy Love
operetta by Franz Lehár
Gasparone
thumb|Carl Millöcker (1883) Gasparone is an operetta in three acts by Carl Millöcker to a German libretto by Friedrich Zell and Richard Genée. The libretto was later revised by and . An amusing feature of the work is that the title character never appears and acts as a scapegoat upon which all the misdeeds in Syracuse, Sicily, can be blamed.
Fatinitza
Fatinitza was the first full-length, three-act operetta by Franz von Suppé. The libretto by F. Zell (a pseudonym for Camillo Walzel) and Richard Genée was based on the libretto to La circassienne by Eugène Scribe (which had been set to music by Daniel Auber in 1861), but with the lead role of Wladimir, a young Russian lieutenant who has to disguise himself as a woman, changed to a trousers role; in other words, a woman played the part of the man who pretended to be a woman.
Polish Blood
thumb|A premiere of Polenblut, Vienna, 1913 thumb|A 1914 Czech production of Polská krev Polenblut (English: Polish Blood) is a German-language operetta in three scenes by Czech composer Oskar Nedbal with a libretto by Austrian playwright Leo Stein. It is allegedly loosely based on the short story "Mistress into Maid" (also known as "The Squire's Daughter") from The Belkin Tales by Russian author Alexander Pushkin; although Stein himself did not say this. It was one of the most popular operettas in Eastern Europe during World War I, but anti-German sentiment prevented the opera from finding a
Where the Lark Sings
operetta by Franz Lehár (1918)
Ein Walzertraum
opera by Oscar Straus
Die keusche Susanne
opera by Jean Gilbert
Donna Juanita
operetta by Franz von Suppé
The Rose of Stamboul
opera by Leo Fall (1916)
Viktoria und ihr Husar
opera by Paul Abraham
The Gay Hussars
operetta by Emmerich Kálmán, 1908
Die Herzogin von Chicago
opera by Emmerich Kálmán
Das Spitzentuch der Königin
operetta composed by Johann Strauss II
Die Göttin der Vernunft
operetta of Johann Strauss II written to a libretto by A. M. Willner and Bernhard Buchbinder
The Chocolate Soldier
opera
The Cousin from Nowhere (operetta)
opera by Eduard Künneke
Der lustige Krieg
operetta composed by Johann Strauss II
Indigo und die vierzig Räuber
operetta by Johann Strauss
Der Zigeunerprimas
opera by Emmerich Kálmán
Die Dollarprinzessin
opera by Leo Fall
Gräfin Dubarry
opera by Carl Millöcker (1879)
Der Göttergatte
opera by Franz Lehár
Pique Dame
opera by Franz von Suppé
Der Opernball
opera by Richard Heuberger
The Merry Farmer
operetta by Leo Fall
Meine Schwester und ich
Musical comedy by Ralph Benatzky
Bezauberndes Fräulein
Musical comedy by Ralph Benatzky
Der Karneval in Rom
1873 operetta by Johann Strauss
Der Obersteiger
operetta by Carl Zeller
Die blaue Mazur
operetta
Schwarzwaldmädel
''''' (Black Forest Girl''''') is a 1917 operetta in three acts by German composer Leon Jessel. The libretto is by August Neidhart, and the operetta premiered on 25 August 1917 at the old Komische Oper Berlin. It is the most popular operetta written in Germany.
Waldmeister
thumb|upright|Johann Strauss II Waldmeister (Woodruff) is an operetta written by Johann Strauss II to a libretto by . It was first performed on 4 December 1895 at the Theater an der Wien. Although not as popular as some of Strauss' other operettas, such as Der Zigeunerbaron and Die Fledermaus, it was given eighty-eight performances, and was much admired by Johannes Brahms, a friend of the composer.
Die Landstreicher
opera by Karl Michael Ziehrer
Die Försterchristl
opera by Georg Jarno
Cagliostro in Wien
operetta by Johann Strauss II
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Prinz Methusalem
operetta composed by Johann Strauss II