La finta giardiniera (The Pretend Garden-Girl), K. 196, is an Italian opera by W. A. Mozart, who wrote it in Munich in 1775, when he was 18 years old. It received its first performance at the Salvatortheater in Munich. There is debate over the authorship of the libretto; the current belief is that it was written by Giuseppe Petrosellini. In 1780 Mozart converted the opera into a German Singspiel called Die Gärtnerin aus Liebe (also Die verstellte Gärtnerin), which involved rewriting some of the music. Until a copy of the complete Italian version was found in the 1970s, the German translation was the only known complete score.
