from Act II of the Italian opera
La Clemenza di Tito by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto: Pietro Metastasio
Role: Servilia, Sesto's sister who is in love with Annius.
Voice Part: soprano Fach: soubrette
Setting: a road to the Arena
Synopsis: Servilia finds Vitellia crying. Servilia believes that she is weeping because Sextus will die and tells her in this aria that her pity for Sextus is useless for he will still die. Unbeknownst to Servilia though, Vitellia is crying because she is the one who caused his execution.