Little Red Riding Hood (opera)

Little Red Riding Hood (Russian: Красная шапочка, romanized: Krasnaja šapočka, lit.

'little red cap') is a fairy-tale opera for children in two acts (three tableaux) by César Cui, composed in 1911.

However, it is known to have been staged in 1921, in Gomel, in the Byelorussian SSR (now Belarus), by students from the People's City Conservatory and the Technical School.

The setting is the edge of a forest; the porch of Little Red Riding Hood's house is off to the side.

As little Red Riding Hood goes off to take a basket of fresh cakes to her ill grandmother, her Mother warns her not to dawdle in the woods or to talk to strangers.