About the work
Clo-Clo is an operetta in three acts by Franz Lehár with a libretto by Béla Jenbach. It premiered on 8 March 1924 at the Wiener Bürgertheater.
Plot
The Parisian singer Clo-Clo Mustache accepts financial support from the mayor of Perpignan, whom she addresses as 'Papa' in her letters. When his wife intercepts one of the letters, she assumes Clo-Clo is her husband's illegitimate daughter and invites her to Perpignan, where the mayor is forced to pass her off as his child; after several complications the family takes Clo-Clo in for good, and she marries a friend from Paris.
Cultural significance
The work is considered Lehár's last wholly lighthearted operetta before his later pieces turned toward more dramatic, opera-like tones. Within a month of its Vienna premiere, Clo-Clo, later also performed under the title Lolotte, was staged in Budapest as well.