Opera Saratoga's Opera to Go - 03/16/2012

“Little Red’s Most Unusual Day

“Little Red’s Most Unusual Day” is an operatic version of the story of Little Red Riding Hood based on music from operas by J. Offenbach and G. Rossini. In this retelling, Forest Ranger Dudley is too shy to ask Little Red’s mom, the widow Hood, to the Forest Ranger Ball. For that reason he leaves a written invitation in a basket of flowers outside Little Red’s house. Unfortunately for Dudley, the basket is delivered to Granny. Granny simply loves men, especially men in uniform. In the resulting confusion the wolf takes Dudley’s uniform as a disguise, Granny kisses the Wolf, Mom gets impatient and Little Red gets in trouble. In fact, everyone experiences, in one-way or another, a very, very unusual day. In the end however, Little Red learns that you must always do what your mother tells you … “Take my advice don’t ever make your mother have to tell you twice!”