"You wanna dance with me?" says Figaro. "I'll teach you how to dance."
It's been a while since I made a video analysis of an aria, so here is "Se Vuol Ballare", the famous Cavatina from Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro. Enjoy! And consider this is you are a baritone and are preparing this aria for an audition....
The recording I used for this demonstration features the incomparable Ildebrando d'Arcangelo in a recording of a fantastic 2006 production in Salzburg under the baton of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, directed by Claus Guth.
