Se vuol ballare
The cavatina "" is an aria for baritone or bass from the first act of the opera "The Marriage of Figaro" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro (1784). The Italian title means "If you want to dance".
Ernst Lert
As a music scholar, Lert published several biographies on notable musical figures and wrote the book "Mozart auf dem Theater" ("Mozart and the Theatre", published 1918). He also contributed articles to numerous magazines, music journals, and newspapers. He wrote the libretto for Hugo Weisgall's "The Tenor" (1952) and wrote the German libretto for Riccardo Zandonai's "Die Kavaliere von Ekeby" ("I cavalieri di Ekebù").