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The "Duetto buffo di due gatti" (humorous duet for two cats) is a performance piece for two sopranos and piano. Oft performed as a comical concert encore, it consists entirely of the repeated word miau ("meow") sung by the singers. It is sometimes performed by a soprano and a tenor, or a soprano and a bass.
Portrait of Gioachino Rossini by Vincenzo Camuccini, Museo Teatrale alla Scala in Milan. This is a list of the works of the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868). Operas
Marie-Thérèse Gauley sang the part of the child at both the premiere in Monte-Carlo and the first performance at the Opéra-Comique on 1 February 1926. The original cast also included Henri Fabert as Vieillard Arithmétique, Warnerey as the clock and cat, [3] while at the Opéra-Comique, conducted by Albert Wolff and with choreography by Louise Virard, the cast included Germaine Féraldy ...
Rossini as a young man, c. 1810–1815. Gioachino [n 1] Antonio Rossini [n 2] (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces and some sacred music. He set new standards for both comic and serious opera before retiring from ...
In 1996, a concert tour through Finland and Estonia took place followed by a choir camp in Turku. In 1997, the boys' choir celebrated its 70th year with the premiere performance of Joseph Fitzmartin's cantata Ich möcht' ein Clown sein ("I would like to be a clown", text by Hanns Dieter Hüsch). In April, a celebratory church service took place ...
The Italian composer Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868) is best known for his operas, of which he wrote 39 between 1806 and 1829.Adopting the opera buffa style of Domenico Cimarosa and Giovanni Paisiello, Rossini became the dominant composer of Italian opera during the first half of the 19th-century.
The Little Singers of Paris (French: Les Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois, literally "Little Singers of the Wooden Cross") is a boys' choir with its main location in Autun, France. It has its origins in 1907 in Paris, moved to Lyon during the Second World War, but moved back to Paris. [1] It has toured widely inside and outside France.
Fugue in D-minor over a theme from Rossini's Cat Duet; Gradual hymns for the Church Year: choir, congregational song, organ and other instruments (1969–1972) Op. 20; Four songs for children's choir and organ: Nu strålar söndagssol från sky, Till templet Jesusbarnet kom, Herren är min herde god and Lovsjungen, alla länder, Gud (1969–71 ...