from Act I of the Italian opera
Il Rè Pastore by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto: Pietro Metastasio
Role: Elisa, noble Phoenician girl, in love with Amintas
Voice Part: soprano Fach: lyric coloratura|soubrette
Setting: the countryside of Sidon
Synopsis: Elisa must leave Amintas so she sings to him before she leaves. She sings of the countryside and how they go around it together. She sings also of the cottage that they live in and how joy will find them there.