Die Fledermaus and Tamerlano are both part of what genre of classical music?
Die Fledermaus Die Fledermaus (] , "The Bat", sometimes called "The Revenge of the Bat") is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by and Richard Genée.
Melodramma Melodramma (plural: "melodrammi") is a 17th-century Italian term for a text to be set as an opera, or the opera itself. In the 19th-century, it was used in a much narrower sense by English writers to discuss developments in the early Italian libretto, e.g., "Rigoletto" and "Un ballo in maschera". Characteristic are the influence of French bourgeois drama, female instead of male protagonists, and the practice of opening the action with a chorus.