from Act I of the Italian opera La Finta Giardiniera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Libretto: Ranieri Calzabigi

Role: Ramiro, rejected lover of Arminda

Voice Part: soprano       Fach: male soprano|lyric soprano|lyric mezzo

Setting: the garden of Don Anchises

Synopsis: Anchises tells Ramiro that, even though Arminda may not love him any more, Ramiro will be able to find another woman soon. Ramiro responds with this aria, singing that, like a bird who escapes from a cage, he will not return to that sort of imprisonment soon.