Clo-Clo

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Work data
Title: Clo-Clo
Original title: Clo-Clo
Shape: operetta
Original language: German
Music: Franz Lehár
Libretto : Bela Jenbach
Premiere: March 8, 1924
Place of premiere: Wiener Bürgerertheater , Vienna
Place and time of the action: Perpignan and Paris around 1900
people
  • CLOCLO Mustache, singer
  • Severin Cornichon called Papa, Mayor of Perpignan,
  • Melousine, his wife
  • Angèle Garelle, a young widow,
  • Maxime de la Vallé,
  • De Marambert, Minister
  • Marcel Durand- speaking role
  • Tricolet, Count of Monte Christo
  • Chablis, piano teacher

and much more

Clo-Clo is an operetta in three acts by the composer Franz Lehár and the librettist Bela Jenbach . The first performance took place on March 8, 1924 in the Vienna Citizens' Theater . The work later became known under the name Lolotte . The composer began his work on August 24, 1923. On February 14, 1924, the work was completed with the completion of the piano reduction. It was Lehár's last completely lively operetta. The following works, beginning with Paganini , all have an operatic-dramatic touch and a tragic ending, which certainly did not harm the musical quality of these late works and brought the composer some successes. Lehár began his work on Clo-Clo only after the completion of the first act of Paganini . Then he interrupted this work in favor of Clo-Clo .

action

Severin Cornichon, the Mayor of Perpignan, is one of many admirers of the Parisian singer CloClo Mustache. This occasionally asks the mayor by letter for financial support, which the mayor promptly provides. In these letters, CloClo tenderly dubbed the mayor with the word papa . One of these letters fell into the hands of Melousine, the mayor's wife. She now believes CloClo is her husband's daughter. Since their marriage remained childless, she is happy about the alleged stepdaughter and goes to Paris to meet her. There the two women become friends and Melousine wants to take CloClo with her to Perpignan and take her there into her family. CloClo comes with this offer because the police are looking for her because she slapped a policeman. When the two women arrive in Perpignan, the situation becomes embarrassing for the mayor. For better or worse he has to recognize CloClo as his daughter, although of course she is not. CloClo himself gets the name Babette and plays the innocence of the country . Melousine hires the piano teacher Chablis, who is supposed to take over the upbringing of her supposed stepdaughter. Chablis, in turn, falls unhappily in love with Babette (CloClo). This is meanwhile also swarmed by other admirers. Then fate catches up with CloClo. Authorities have determined the true identity of Babette aka CloClo. Now she is arrested and imprisoned for the slap in the face. There is a scandal in Perpignan and the mayor is temporarily losing his office. After two weeks, CloClo is released from prison. The mayor and his wife now adopt her and CloClo marries Maxime, her friend from her Parisian days.

reception

The critics were initially enthusiastic about this operetta. It was the spirit of Jacques Offenbach 's speech and there were even parallels to the bat of Johann Strauss pulled. The work was performed in Budapest just a month after its premiere and in 1930 it was performed in Paris. After that the work was played less and less. Between 1971 and 2018 it had completely disappeared from the theater schedules. In 2018 there was a renaissance of this operetta in English at the Ohio Light Opera in Wooster Ohio . This performance was awarded the August Frosch Prize by BR-Klassik.

On 10/11 August 2019 at the Lehár Festival Bad Ischl, performances of this work, which had never been performed there before, took place. Sieglinde Feldhofer sang the title role of the Clo-Clo Mustache , Gerd Vogel the mayor Severin Cornichon, Susanna Hirschler his wife Melousine and Daniel Jenz the role of Maxime de la Vallé. The CPO label planned to release a CD of this production, which was released as a double CD in June 2020.

Music numbers

The following music numbers can be heard on the above-mentioned double CD, which was released in June 2020.

  • overture
  • No. 1 The gong sounds (Song of the Guard Clo-Clos, choir)
  • No. 2 I'm looking for a man (Clo-Clo)
  • No. 3 Go home nicely (duet Clo-Clo and Severin)
  • No. 4 If you are over fifty (Severin)
  • No. 5 Just a single hour (duet Clo-Clo, Maxime)
  • No. 6 I'm going out into the country (Clo-Clo)
  • No. 7 Finale I.
  • No. 8 bells ring softly through the valley (chorus)
  • No. 8 1/2 Once the sweet crocodile (chorus)
  • No. 9 Dear child, listen to mama (trio Clo-Clo, Severin, Melousine)
  • No. 10 Far away, about more ... Fiery dancers (Clo-Clo-Severin)
  • No. 11 Babette, if I had you (Clo-Clo-Chablis)
  • No. 12 Come on, let me tell you a secret (Severin)
  • No. 13 Up in Heaven ... Children it's not a sin (clo-clo, maxim)
  • No. 14 I read La Garconne (Melousine)
  • No. 15 Finale II (all)
  • No. 15 1/2 prelude to act 3 and reminiscence (clo-clo, policeman)
  • No. 16 See the gruesome ... Ole-ola-ole (Clo-Clo, Severin)
  • No. 17 At all times there were fools ... Every person has his or her whimsy (Severin)
  • No. 18 Say dearest how do you like me ... The girls go to bed (Clo-Clo, Maxime)
  • No. 19 final song (Finale III)

Web links

literature

  • Norbert Linke : Franz Lehár . Rororo-Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2001, pp. 79-80

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mix of revue, burlesque, rarity. July 13, 2019, accessed July 13, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Franziska Stürz: “Clo-Clo” at the Lehár Festival: A highly entertaining operetta rarity. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . August 11, 2019, accessed August 11, 2019 .