Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: child prodigy, scatalogical letter-writer, and astonishingly prolific composer.
There's nothing like the pleasure of watching a Mozart opera and the Marriage of Figaro is such fun. This particular aria is sung by the title character, Figaro, on discovering that his employer, Count Almaviva, plans to trick him and assert this feudal right to sleep with women on his estate. This is a problem, since the woman in the count's sights is Figaro's finance, Susanna. In Se vuol ballare (which translates to "if you want to dance") Figaro sings about his determination to thwart the count's plan.
Operas: long on hyperbolic silliness, not long on realism. People really do sing about being mortally wounded for fifteen minutes before expiring, it's glorious. Or they sing gleeful, bouncy, incredibly catchy tunes while plotting the downfall of their enemies. Like so.
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