''Clivia'' is a 1933 operetta by

Nico Dostal Nico Dostal (full name: Nikolaus Josef Michael Dostal) (27 November 1895 – 27 October 1981) was an Austrian composer who later specialised in operetta and film music. Life Dostal was born in Korneuburg, Lower Austria, and was the nephew of com ...

to a libretto by Charles Amberg. The premiere was 23 December 1933 at the Berlin

Theater am Nollendorfplatz The Metropol, formerly Neues Schauspielhaus ( en, New Theatre), at 5 Nollendorfplatz in the Schöneberg district of Berlin was built in 1905 as a theatre, with a separate concert hall (the Mozartsaal) above, in the then-fashionable Art Nouveau st ...

. The plot concerns the adventures of a film star, Clivia Gray, in the South American republic of Boliguay and her romance with the Boliguayan president. The premiere featured

Lillie Claus Lillie Claus-Dostal (1905–2000) was an Austrian lyric coloratura opera and operetta singer. Biography She received a musical education in her youth (vocals, piano, dance school). When she was 16 she entered the Vienna Academy of Music. She de ...

, later Dostal's wife, and Walter Jankuhn in the tenor role of the president.Andrew Lamb - 150 Years of Popular Musical Theatre 2000 - Page 230 0300075383 "It was another operetta with a topical plot about the movies that gave success to Nico Dostal (1895-1981), who had for some years pursued a career as a theatre conductor and arranger. Clivia (1933) concerns film star Clivia Gray, who goes to the South American republic of Boliguay to make a movie, becomes involved in various political complexities, and ends up marrying the Boliguayan president. Walter Jankuhn played the tenor role of the president, and Lillie Claus (who later married Dostal) was Clivia. She had the two big numbers: the introductory "Man spricht heut' nur noch von Clivia" and the reflective "Ich bin verliebt."

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Anneliese Rothenberger Anneliese Rothenberger (19 June 191924 May 2010) was a German operatic soprano who had an active international performance career which spanned from 1942 to 1983. She specialized in the lyric coloratura soprano repertoire, and was particularly adm ...

, Rupert Glawitsch, Hans Herbert Fiedler, Maria Madlen Madsen, Gerd Martiensen, NWDR SO Hamburg, Wilhelm Stephan 1951 *Sieglinde Feldhofer, Matthias Koziorowski, Anna Brull, Ivan Orescanin, Markus Butter, Chor der Oper Graz, Grazer Philharmoniker, Marius Burkert 2CD CPO 2023

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