Puss in Boots is a short fairytale opera for children in three acts, four tableaux, composed by César Cui in 1913. The libretto was written by Marina Stanislavovna Pol'. It was premiered in Rome at the Teatro dei Piccoli in 1915 under the title Il gatto con gli stivali and ran for fifty performances. A Soviet edition of the opera, with a revised libretto, was published in 1961. In 1978 the opera was staged in Potsdam, then East Germany, as Der gestiefelte Kater. The first production in West Germany was in the early 1989s in Nuremberg. It was performed in the 1997/98 season at the Staatsoper Stuttgart, directed by Klaus Zehelein and Ulrich Lenz, and recorded on CD in 1999 in a version with spoken dialogue designed for radio.