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The "Duetto buffo di due gatti" (humorous duet for two cats) is a performance piece for two sopranos and piano. Often 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.
La regata veneziana (The Venetian Regatta) is the title of two different compositions by Gioachino Rossini.A duet with that title ("Voga, o Tonio benedeto") is catalogued as Les soirées musicales, No. 9 and a set of three canonzettas with that title is catalogued in his Péchés de vieillesse in Volume 1 Album italiano as Nos. 8-10.
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 ...
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.
Sei sonate a quattro Six string sonatas (Rossini) (1804) Sonata No. 1 in G major; Sonata No. 2 in A major; Sonata No. 3 in C major; Sonata No. 4 in B ♭ major; Sonata No. 5 in E ♭ major; Sonata No. 6 in D major; Sinfonia "al conventello" (1806) Cinque duets pour cor (1806) Sinfonia (1808, used in L'inganno felice)
The William Tell Overture is the overture to the opera William Tell (original French title Guillaume Tell), composed by Gioachino Rossini. William Tell premiered in 1829 and was the last of Rossini's 39 operas, after which he went into semi-retirement (he continued to compose cantatas, sacred music and secular vocal music). The overture is in ...
Isabella Colbran sang the title role, which is one of the longest and most demanding that Rossini wrote, with difficult coloratura passages of every kind during the entire opera. The most notable are to be found in "D'amore al dolce impero" during act 2, in the duets between Armida and Rinaldo, and in parts of the act 3 finale.
Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra (Italian pronunciation: [elizaˈbɛtta reˈdʒiːna diŋɡilˈtɛrra]; Elizabeth, Queen of England) is a dramma per musica or opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Giovanni Schmidt, from the play Il paggio di Leicester (Leicester's Page) by Carlo Federici, which itself "was derived from a novel The Recess (1785) by Sophia Lee."