Oh yes, Cats have appeared in all the fine operas, here is a small sample from the book 'The Catropolitan Opera' here we see Cats playing all the major roles.
The vengeful Queen of the night gives her daughter a dagger, and orders her to kill the high priest, Sarastro.
It is a cat opera tradition that the Queen of the Night is played by a white persian. Near the end of her career, Francesca Fischio dyed herself white to get the part.To make her coat appear fuller she was bathed and blown dry each evening. Her voice by then was harsh and limited, her figure bloated, yet she was still a commanding and vivid prescence.
At a party Eugene Onegin deliberatly provokes his friend Lensky by flirting outrageously with Lensky's beloved Olga. Lensky challenges Onegin to a dual, and Onegin kills him.
As you can see, when cats stand back to back and upright, their tails tend to wind about their legs. One evening when Onegin played by the great Russian Tenor Nikolai Goddakatskan, whirled to fire his pistol, he discovered that Lensky had tripped over his tail before taking a single step. It seemed rather ungentlemanly to shoot Lensky as he lay on the ground, but Goddakatscan had no choice.
