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.
Origins of opera The art form known as "opera" originated in Italy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, though it drew upon older traditions of medieval and Renaissance courtly entertainment. The word "opera", meaning "work" in Italian, was first used in the modern musical and theatrical sense in 1639 and soon spread to the other European languages. The earliest operas were modest productions compared to other Renaissance forms of sung drama, but they soon became more lavish and took on the spectacular stagings of the earlier genre known as intermedio.