Dove sono

"Dove sono"
"Dove sono"
Aria by W. A. Mozart
	Aulikki Rautawaara as the Countess in the 1950s
English	Where are [those happy moments]
Key	C major
Related	Le nozze di Figaro
Text	Lorenzo Da Ponte
Language	Italian
Composed	1786
	"E Susanna non vien!" "Dove sono i bei momenti" Maria Stader, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Ferenc Fricsay (1960)

"Dove sono" (Where are [those happy moments])^[1] is an aria in Italian for lyric soprano from the third act of Mozart's 1786 opera Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro). Countess Almaviva laments, in an initial recitative, that her husband has become a philanderer, and that she must rely on assistance from her maid to manipulate him. In the aria, she calmly remembers moments of love, and hopes, with increasing agitation, that her persistence may make him love her again.^[2] It is frequently performed in recitals^[3] and featured in anthologies of vocal music for lyric soprano.

^ "E Susanna non vien." opera-arias.com. 2022. Archived from the original on 10 February 2022. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
^ Cite error: The named reference Moberly was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Robinson, Paul A. (1986). Opera & Ideas: From Mozart to Strauss. Cornell Paperbacks. Cornell University Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-8014-9428-4. Archived from the original on 28 April 2022. Retrieved 7 April 2022.

[Arias-1] "E Susanna non vien." opera-arias.com. 2022. Archived from the original on 10 February 2022. Retrieved 7 April 2022.

[Moberly-2] Cite error: The named reference Moberly was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[Recitalsoften-3] Robinson, Paul A. (1986). Opera & Ideas: From Mozart to Strauss. Cornell Paperbacks. Cornell University Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-8014-9428-4. Archived from the original on 28 April 2022. Retrieved 7 April 2022.

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