L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love, ] ) is a comic opera ("melodramma giocoso ") in two acts by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti.
 Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto, after Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's "Le philtre" (1831).
 The opera premiered on 12 May 1832 at the Teatro della Canobbiana in Milan.
James Andrew Olds (born 20 February 1986) is an Australian bass-baritone.
 He has performed with Opera Australia, Diva Opera, Musica Viva, London Contemporary Opera and was a Young Artist with Pacific Opera.
 Olds had over 100 performances with the Opera Australia chorus before relocating to London in 2012 to accept a scholarship for the Artist Masters Programme at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
 In 2013, Olds performed at Wigmore Hall as a finalist in the Australian Music Foundation Award and performed the role of Betto in Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi" for St. Paul's Summertime Opera.
 For the Guildhall School of Music and Drama's Opera Scenes showcases, Olds has performed the roles of Rocco ("Fidelio", Beethoven), Dr Dulcamara ("L'elisir d'amore", Donizetti) and Leporello ("Don Giovanni", Mozart).
 Also in 2013, he traveled the United Kingdom and France with Diva Opera performing the role of Un Ufficiale in Rossini's "The Barber of Seville".
 Olds was the winner of the 34th National Liederfest in Melbourne and recently worked with Elly Ameling, Helmut Deutsch and Julius Drake at the Franz-Schubert-Institut in Baden bei Wien, Austria.
 In 2015, Olds performed the role of Count Almaviva in "The Marriage of Figaro" for Rockdale Opera Company.
 In 2016, Olds will be performing the role of Officer in "The Barber of Seville" for Opera Australia.
Maurizio Benini is an Italian conductor and composer.
 He made his debut in 1998 in "L'elisir d'amore" at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna.
 "Gramophone" notes his "spirit and finesse" at conducting.
 He has also conducted opera performances at La Scala, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Metropolitan Opera, the Paris Opera, The Royal Opera, the Vienna State Opera, and the Wexford Festival Opera among others.
Alyson Cambridge is an American operatic soprano.
 A native of Washington D.C., she attended school in Cambridge and Oberlin College and studied at the Curtis Institute of Music.
 In 2003 she won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, which gained her entrance into the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.
 In 2004 she made her Met debut as Frasquita in Georges Bizet's "Carmen".
 She has since appeared in several roles with that company, including Giannetta in "L'elisir d'amore", a Flower Maiden in "Parsifal", Karolka in "Jenůfa", Crobyle in "Thaïs", and Bianca in "La Rondine".
Agostino Rovere (1804, Monza - 1865, New York City) was an Italian operatic bass.
 After studying singing in Milan, he made his professional opera debut in 1826 at the opera house in Pavia.
 In 1828 he portrayed Clemente in the world premiere of Vincenzo Bellini's "Bianca e Fernando" at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa.
 In 1839 he sang the role of Pedrigo in the world premiere of Gaetano Donizetti's "Gianni di Parigi" at La Scala.
 He returned to that opera house the following year to create the role of La Rocca in the world premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's "Un giorno di regno".
 In 1842 he portrayed the role of Marquis de Boisfleury in the world premiere of Donizetti's "Linda di Chamounix" at the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna.
 In 1847-1848 he was committed to the Royal Opera House in London where he sang Bartolo in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro", Don Magnifico in Rossini's "La Cenerentola", Dulcamara in Donizetti's "L'elisir d'amore", Leporello in "Don Giovanni", and Mustafà in Gioachino Rossini's "L'italiana in Algeri"
The Turn of the Screw is a 20th-century English chamber opera composed by Benjamin Britten with a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, "wife of the artist John Piper, who had been a friend of the composer since 1935 and had provided designs for several of the operas".
 The libretto is based on the novella "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James.
 The opera was commissioned by the Venice Biennale and given its world premiere on 14 September 1954, at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice.
 The original recording was made during that year, with the composer conducting.
Alfonso Ortiz Tirado was an opera singer and doctor born in Álamos, Sonora, Mexico in 1893.
 His musical talent was apparent early in life, but he studied at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria and university to become a doctor.
 He specialized in gynecology as well as general medicine, and eventually became the personal physician of Frida Kahlo and performed surgery on Agustín Lara.
 As a musician, he studied under José Pierson and soon afterward had a successful international career as an opera singer, earning the label of “tenor of the Americas.”
 He was often cast for productions of L'elisir d'amore and Madame Butterfly.
 He earned a large sum of money doing this, and used it to establish a children’s hospital in Mexico City.
 Ortiz died in 1960, and was interred at the Panteón Frances de la Piedad.
 The Festival de Canto Operístico Tirado in the state of Sonora was named after him.
Mirjana Bohanec-Vidović (born October 2, 1939) is a Croatian operatic soprano.
 She studied singing at the Academy of Music, University of Zagreb and with Emmy Loose in Vienna.
 She made her professional opera debut in 1966 at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, remaining there as a resident artist for two years.
 From 1968-1969 she was committed to the Vienna Volksoper.
 She returned to the Croatian National Opera in 1970 where she remained for the rest of her career.
 Her repertoire mainly consisted of soubrette and lyric coloratura soprano roles, including Adina in Gaetano Donizetti's "L'elisir d'amore", Nedda in Ruggero Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci", Norina in Donizetti's "Don Pasquale", Oscar in Giuseppe Verdi's "Un ballo in maschera", Susanna in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro", Violetta in Verdi's "La Traviata", and Zerlina in Mozart's "Don Giovanni".
 She is married to Dr. Ivo Vidović, director of home health in Runjanin street in Zagreb.
Loretta Di Franco is an American operatic soprano who is chiefly known for her more than 900 performances at the Metropolitan Opera from 1961-1995.
 Originally a member of the Met's opera chorus, she eventually was promoted to singing small comprimario roles beginning with one of the pages in Wagner's "Tannhäuser" and the peasant girl in "The Marriage of Figaro" in 1961.
 She went on to win the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 1965 which led to her first substantial role, Chloe in "The Queen of Spades".
 She continued to appear annually at the Met for the next 30 years, performing both leading and supporting roles.
 Some of the parts she performed at the Met included Annina in "La traviata", both the Aunt and Barena in Janáček's "Jenůfa", Barbarina and Marcellina in "The Marriage of Figaro", Berta in "The Barber of Seville", Countess Ceprano in "Rigoletto", the Dew Fairy and the Sandman in "Hansel and Gretel", Feklusa in "Káťa Kabanová", the First Lady in "The Magic Flute", the Flower Seller in Britten's "Death in Venice", Frasquita in "Carmen", Gerhilde in "Die Walküre", Giannetta in "L'elisir d'amore", Helen in "Mourning Becomes Electra", Ines in "Il trovatore", Jouvenot in "Adriana Lecouvreur", Kate Pinkerton in "Madama Butterfly", Laura in "Luisa Miller", Lauretta in "Gianni Schichi", Lisa in "La sonnambula", Marianne in "Der Rosenkavalier", Marthe in "Faust", Musetta in "La bohème", Oscar in "Un ballo in maschera", Samaritana in "Francesca da Rimini", Woglinde in both "Das Rheingold" and "Götterdämmerung", Xenia in "Boris Godunov", Zerlina in "Don Giovanni", and title role in "Lucia di Lammermoor".
 In 1991 she created the role of the Woman with Child in the world premiere of John Corigliano's "The Ghosts of Versailles".
Domenico Trimarchi is an Italian bass-baritone opera singer.
 He was born in Naples, where he studied singing at the Conservatory.
 In 1970 he made his debut at La Fenice, Venice as Belcore in "L'elisir d'amore".
 He made his British debut at the Edinburgh Festival in 1972 and first appeared at Covent Garden in 1975 playing Bartolo in "The Barber of Seville".
 In "The Times" William Mann praised him as "ripe, rubber-faced and a virtuoso patter singer."
 Trimarchi reprised the role there between 1978 and 1987.
 He has appeared at all the major opera-houses of the world, including La Scala, Milan, the Vienna State Opera and the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Question: Which opera, L'elisir d'amore or The Turn of the Screw, premiered first ?
Answer: L'elisir d'amore