@bestofopera.en: Follow @bestofopera for the voices that refuse to be forgotten. 🎵 "Duetto buffo di due gatti" - Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois The choir is serious. White robes, cross on the chest, line up like any choir singing an Ave Maria. Neither of the two boys at the front smiles once — they look ahead, posture straight, face closed as if the piece called for gravity. What comes out of their mouths is meowing. From the first to the last bar, without one word: not in Italian, not in French, not in any language. The audience laughs from the start. They continue serious to the end. It's this choir: the Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois, French boys' choir that sings until the voice changes — when it does, the boy leaves the group. One of the two that meow here today sings as a professional baritone in France. The joke isn't theirs. The score came out in London in 1825, signed by "G. Berthold" — a name that doesn't exist. The attribution to Rossini was never confirmed, not even by the British Library, which holds the original print. Two hundred years later, no one proved who wrote this piece. It arrived here without an author, and without one word — just the meowing, sung with the most serious face in the world. Can you imagine holding back the entire audience's laughter without smiling once? Work: Duetto buffo di due gatti ("Comic duet of two cats") Composer: attributed to "G. Berthold" — pseudonym, authorship never confirmed Performer: Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois 🇫🇷 Recording: boys' choir in concert Follow for more sounds you've never heard in your life. #BestOfOpera #DuetOfCats #ComicOpera #BoysChoir

Mawe :

This goes way back to the 90s. Regis Mengus (black hair) is in his thirties now and working as a theater actor. Fun to watch.

Merian #7 Philippines :

blasphemy to the Lord.

MAGTOM :

are they mocking ? Thought this song is singing Ave Maria

schribbl3 :

Dolly Parton passed y’all STOPPPP😭😭😭😭

nandigupar :

who else watched it over and over again and again i can't get enough of it 😄😅

Ciarán Hogan Wicklow :

how can they sing that and not just burst with laughter.

becky :

when you are told, there's nothing new under the sun, trying to prove them wrong 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣

Cattitude :

Duet for cats is one of the funniest classical pieces written.

GuncleKoko :

Why is it so meowancholy?? 😅

เมกาโนไม่หวาน :

i can feel the meow meeeeeeeeeeeOOOOOW OOW meeeeee 😌😌😌😌😌

Tavo :

meeeeeeeeeeeOOOOOW OOW meeeeee😂😂😂😂😂

CrisHeartsmuZic🎶❤️ :

It sounds funny but beautiful at the same time. They did a great job with the note and harmonies and singing nazel.

sexualchocolate696 :

Why did I almost cry?

Rai :

Their harmony and voices are beautiful

phine0317 :

the ending

🐀A Sack of Rats🐀 :

This was my college choir warmup song😂😂

Erica Sankarsingh :

Master T :

where is the cat ???? 😂😂😂😂

CCBYE :

humor mixed with art is formidable 😄

kattbai2 :

What amazes me is not how incredibly well they sing, but the ability to hold their laughter. Now thats phenomenon.😁