Comments on: O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love, what a beautiful Pussy you are!

O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love, what a beautiful Pussy you are!

Nomyte — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:31:34 -0800

Often attributed to Rossini, the «Duetto buffo di due gatti» ("humorous duet for two cats") is a popular performance piece for sopranos.

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Enjoy! (via Avva)

By: spacewrench

spacewrench — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:05:11 -0800

Nice title...I tried to find a YT version of Laurie Anderson's version of the poem, but my GoogleFu is too weak. These are great fun!

By: typewriter

typewriter — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:43:10 -0800

The choir boys one always cracks me up!

By: Slarty Bartfast

Slarty Bartfast — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:37:18 -0800

Awesome! I love Rossini and I love cats! My long suffering kitty has grown weary of L'Italiani in Algeri and thanks you. Sadly, that's not Rossini and those aren't real cats

By: troublesome

troublesome — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:59:34 -0800

Ha, I've performed this before, and I don't think I'd ever actually heard anyone sing it but me and the group I sang it with until just now. I suspect we butchered it, as we were 13-year-old girls and none of us were really very good singers.

By: scruss

scruss — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:31:37 -0800

The incredibly talented and delightfully eccentric Orriel Smith has combined opera, cats and chickens on her Cluckoratoura performances.

By: hawthorne

hawthorne — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:23:13 -0800

I like the creeping realisation of the dark haired boy - he's been just going along with this guff in rehearsal, but then finds that yes, this kills and tonight I have them.

By: yarrow

yarrow — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:39:15 -0800

Makes me think of the prizewinning composing cat who died recently.

"We gave the piece serious consideration because it was quite well written," Guy Livingstone, one of the judges, said in 1997. "It reminded us of Anton Webern. If Webern had a cat, this is what Webern's cat would have written."

His piece didn't have lyrics but presumably if it had they would have been "miau."

By: rossination

rossination — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:05:26 -0800

A friend of mine performed this at her senior recital, and did a really great job. Unfortunately, the other "cat" went a little overboard with the acting, and ended up overshadowing my friend with a "sexy / funny / coy" peformance of her half.

By: slkinsey

slkinsey — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:56:34 -0800

The so-called "Cat Duet" is actually a pastiche compiled largely from Rodrigo's two-part aria "Che ascolto, ahimè... Ah come mai non senti" from Rossini's great opera, Otello (most of the borrowed stuff is from the cabaletta at 5:32).

By: xthlc

xthlc — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:17:01 -0800

"My pussy never smelled like that!" Pussy Pussy Pussy - The Light Crust Doughboys (1936) I nearly died the first time I heard this.

By: xthlc

xthlc — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:18:55 -0800

Apologies for any derail from that last link. I couldn't resist thanks to the title of this (great) post.