Va pure ad altri in braccio (La finta giardiniera)

La finta giardiniera was commissioned for the Munich carnival and first performed at the Salvatortheater on 13 January 1775, three weeks before Mozart's nineteenth birthday. The plot is a comedy of disguise in which a marchioness, stabbed and left for dead by her lover, takes work as a gardener under a false name; two of the characters lose their reason before it is resolved. Mozart wrote seven principal roles and gave each a distinct manner. The Italian score was later fitted with German dialogue and played as a Singspiel, and for a century the original version was thought incomplete.