Puss in Boots (opera)

Puss in Boots (Кот в сапогах in Cyrillic; Kot v sapogakh in transliteration) is a short opera-fairytale for children in three acts, four tableaux, composed by César Cui in 1913.

It was premiered in Rome in 1915 under the title Il gatto con gli stivali.

By the 1970s this opera seems to have become popular in what was then East Germany as Der gestiefelte Kater.

Under that title it was recorded later on CD by the Staatsoper Stuttgart in 1999 in a version designed for radio.

The plot follows very closely the fairytale by Perrault, with an instrumental introduction and inserted dances.