"Sull' Aria"
On the breeze...
Oh! Just write what I say
I'll take responsibility for everything...
"A little song on the breeze....
"...on the breeze...."
What a gentle little zephir...
"...a little zephir..."
This evening will sigh...
"...this evening will sigh..."
Under the pines in the little grove.
"...under the pines…"
Under the pines in the little grove
"...under…the pines…in the little grove..."
And the rest he’ll understand
Certainly, certainly he’ll understand.
In Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, the Countess is painfully aware of her huband's straying eyes. When Figaro and Susanna reveal his intention to claim the archaic Lord's rights to the bride on the first night of their marriage, the Countess agrees to help entrap and expose him, by dictating a poem suggesting an illicit meeting with the Count and Susanna under the pines in the little grove.