Puss-in-Boots (Cui, César)

		Movements/Sections 4 tableaux Composition Year 1913 Genre Categories Operas; Stage Works; For voices, mixed chorus, orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the orchestra; For voices and chorus with orchestra; For piano; Scores featuring the piano; For 1 player

Sheet Music

• Vocal Scores (7)

Vocal Scores

Russian (1913 version)

 Title page
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 Introduction (piano 4-hands)
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 Tableau 1
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 Tableau 2 (up to the dances)
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 Tableau 2 (closing dances, piano 4-hands)
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 Tableau 3
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 Tableau 4
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Publisher Info.:

St. Petersburg: 1913 (in the journal Светлячок (Svetlyachok = The Firefly).

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag/del]

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General Information

Work Title	Puss-in-Boots
Alternative Title	Кот в сапогах ; Il gatto con gli stivali ; Der gestiefelte Kater

Composer	Cui, César
Movements/Sections	4 tableaux
Year/Date of Composition	1913
First Performance	Rome, 1915
First Publication	1913 (vocal score only; full score remains unpublished)
Librettist	Marina Stanislavovna Pol and Nadezhda Nikolayevna Dolomanova, after Charles Perrault (1628–1703)
Language	Russian
Dedication	A. A. Fedorov-Davydov
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	voices and instruments

Misc. Comments

This is a children's opera. It was published during the composer's lifetime only in piano-vocal score by the journal Светлячок (Svetlyachok = The Firefly); if the composer left an orchestration, this would need to be investigated. The Soviet edition of 1961 reworks the libretto to include spoken dialogue.

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)