Little Red Riding-Hood (Cui, César)

		Movements/Sections 2 acts, in 3 tableaux Composition Year 1911 Genre Categories Operas; Stage Works; For voices, mixed chorus, piano; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the piano; For voices and chorus with keyboard; Russian language

Scores

• Vocal Scores (3)

Vocal Scores

Russian

 Title pages and preliminaries
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Lyle Neff (27 September 2007)

 Act I
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 Act II
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Editor:

Printed by Pechatnik

Publisher Info.:

Moscow: Svetljachok, 1912.

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag all]

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Non-Commercial Recordings

• Act I, first scene (pp. 5-12) -- Audio from MIDI (orchestrated from the 1912 piano-vocal score and sequenced by Lyle Neff)

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General Information

Work Title	Little Red Riding-Hood
Alternative Title	Красная шапочка

Composer	Cui, César
Movements/Sections	2 acts, in 3 tableaux
Year/Date of Composition	1911
First Publication	1912 (as a supplement to the journal Светлячок, printed by Печатник)
Librettist	Marina Stanislavovna Pol, after Charles Perrault (1628–1703)
Language	Russian
Dedication	Его Императорскому Высочеству Наследнику Цесаревичу Великому Князю Алексею Николаевичу (To His Imperial Highness, Heir, Crown Prince, Grand Duke, Aleksey Nikolaevich)
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	voices with piano accompaniment (or orchestra?)

Misc. Comments

This is an opera fairy-tale for children. Only a piano-vocal score was published. Whether the composer left an orchestration would need to be confirmed.

External Links

• Wikipedia article

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Operas by César Cui
Neuhausen Castle (1859, unfinished) Prisoner of the Caucasus (1857–58, rev. 1881–82, 1885) The Mandarin's Son (1859) William Ratcliff (1861–68) Mlada (1872, Act I only) Angelo (1871–75) Le flibustier (1888–89) The Saracen (1896–98) Feast in Time of Plague (1899~1900?)	Undina (1900–04?, unfinished) Mademoiselle Fifi (1902–03) The Snow Bogatyr (1905) Mateo Falcone (1906–07) The Captain's Daughter (1907–09) Little Red Riding-Hood (1911) Ivan the Fool (1913) Puss-in-Boots (1913)