Krasnaja
shapochka
Rotkaeppchen; Little Red Riding-Hood
A children's opera fairy-tale
Composed by Cesar Cui
Libretto by Marina Stanislavovna Pol', based on Perrault
Date of composition: 1911
Earliest known performance: 1922, Belorussia
Cast of Characters
- Grandmother: alto
- Mother: mezzo-soprano
- Little Red Riding-Hood: soprano
- Wolf: alto
- Hunter: soprano
- Woodcutter: mezzo-soprano
Hunters, woodcutters. Narrating chorus.
Setting:
Synopsis
Little Red Riding-Hood goes off with food to see her grandmother. A wolf
in the forest tricks her into taking a longer path while the wolf goes to
the house first, swallows the grandmother, and pretends to be her when
Red arrives. He swallows Red also, but then Red and Grandmother are
rescued by hunters and wood-choppers who slice open the wolf's belly to
let them out. The wolf is forgiven.
Extra Information
Author: Lyle Neff, lneff@ucs.indiana.edu
Last Updated: Dec. 11, 1995