("farce with singing", plural: ) is a form of popular German-language music drama, that developed in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Early examples are sometimes called or . It is also sometimes referred to simply as (farce).
Associated with Vienna, and also Berlin and Hamburg, the was similar to the Singspiel, but generally had more action and less music than the more operatic form. Viennese examples included Ferdinand Raimund's of 1828 and many of the works of Johann Nestroy. Composers who contributed music for included Wenzel Müller, Conradin Kreutzer, and Philip Jakob Riotte.
Some 20th-century examples of posse written by Walter Kollo were (1912) and (1913).
More specialized examples of the genre were (daily life themes), (magic), (personalities), (situations), and (parodies).
Other examples of 1820: by Franz Schubert, Vienna, Theater am Kärntnertor 1826: by Wenzel Müller, Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt 1842: by Johann Nestroy (text) and Adolf Müller (music) 1889: by Karl Michael Ziehrer, Vienna, Theater an der Wien
References
Warrack, John and West, Ewan (1992), The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, 782 pages,