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

Libretto: Ranieri Calzabigi

Role: Serpetta, maid of the Podestà, in love with him

Voice Part: soprano       Fach: soubrette

Setting: the garden of Don Anchises

Synopsis: Roberto would like to marry Serpetta. She is sure that she could do better, though, and outlines the way she will get a husband in her aria. She sings that men come to her as soon as they see her. They expect that she will give into them but she just lets them go on their way.