Mozart entered the aria into his catalogue on 20 June 1783 Vienna. It was performed in the Burgtheater, Vienna, on 30 June 1783, as an insertion aria for a performance of Pasquale Anfossi's opera Il curioso indiscreto which had premiered with great success in 1777 in Rome. The opera uses Cervantes' Don Quixote as its literary source. It had been staged 34 times until 1792, including in Venice and Florence and in a production by Joseph Haydn in October 1782 at the Esterhazy court. In modern times, the only production was on 20 January 1984 at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

Librettist Giovanni Bertati
Date of composition 1783
Premiered 1783, June 30th in Vienna, Austria
Type Aria
Catalogue KV 418
Instruments Voice (Soprano)
2x Oboe
2x Bassoon
2x Horn
Strings
Autotranslations beta Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio,, KV 418
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio,, KV 418
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio,, KV 418