Se vuol ballare

Se vuol ballare

The cavatina "Se Vuol Ballare" is the title of an aria from the opera "The Marriage of Figaro" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It means "If you want to dance" in Italian. Written a mere three years before the French Revolution, it portrays Figaro's intent to foil Count Almaviva's womanizing, but can also be read as a political attack on the power-wielding nobility of the time. The song is sung by Figaro upon discovering the Count's ploys to exercise his newly reasserted feudal right of "ius primae noctis" to sleep with Figaro's wife Susanna before the consummation of their marriage. Figaro sings of how he will unravel the Count's schemes and thwart him.

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Variations

Beethoven wrote a series of variations on the theme of Se Vuol Ballare.

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