These are five of the many women who helped make operetta history on stage and behind the scenes.

Out of all the music performed in the repertoire of Salute to Vienna New Year's Concert, here are the Top Five Audience Favourites.

► Salute to Vienna New Year's Concert ► Viennese music with Strauss Waltzes & Operetta Hits, Singers, Dancers & Full Orchestra in one New...

► Salute to Vienna New Year's Concert ► Viennese music with Strauss Waltzes & Operetta Hits, Singers, Dancers & Full Orchestra in one New...

► Salute to Vienna New Year's Concert ► Viennese music with Strauss Waltzes & Operetta Hits, Singers, Dancers & Full Orchestra in one New...

Johann Strauss II’s The Gypsy Baron (1885) is the first Viennese operetta set in Hungary. It was born out of Strauss’ visits to Budapest...

Lehár’s The Merry Widow takes place in the early 20th century, both in Paris and in the expatriate community of Pontevedro, a fictional...

In Giuditta, Lehár bridges the gap between the genres of opera and operetta. It was his last operetta and a personal favorite. While...

Franz Lehár’s Freiderike, set in 1770, tells the true story of the “Sesenheim Idyll,” a brief, but intense love affair between young poet...

Otto Nicolai’s Merry Wives of Windsor is based on the Shakespeare play of the same name. Nicolai was not the only composer to create an...

Johann Strauss Jr.’s A Night in Venice (1883) tells the story of one eventful evening in 18th-century Venice. Among the Viennese, Venice...

The score for Johann Strauss Jr.’s most celebrated and popular operetta, Die Fledermaus (1874), was composed over just 42 days in the...

In Emmerich Kálmán’s Countess Maritza (1924), Maritza, owner of a large country estate on the Hungary/Bulgaria border, is overwhelmed...