Question: Which opera premiered first, From the House of the Dead or Nixon in China?
Context: The Ballad of [the] Canal or The Canal Ballad (Chinese: 运河谣) is a 2012 opera by composer Yin Qing based on Chinese folk music.  The libretto was supplied by playwrights Huang Weiruo and Dong Ni and celebrates the story of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the longest canal in the world.  The opera premiered at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (China) in 2012.  The use of Chinese folk music was a departure from the NCPA's previous western-influenced Chinese-language operas.  NCPA's in house audio visual company released a making of documentary including footage of rehearsals in July 2017. Nixon in China is an opera in three acts by John Adams, with a libretto by Alice Goodman.  Adams' first opera, it was inspired by U.S. President Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972.  The work premiered at the Houston Grand Opera on October 22, 1987, in a production by Peter Sellars with choreography by Mark Morris.  When Sellars approached Adams with the idea for the opera in 1985, Adams was initially reluctant, but eventually decided that the work could be a study in how myths come to be, and accepted the project.  Goodman's libretto was the result of considerable research into Nixon's visit, though she disregarded most sources published after the 1972 trip. The eighth season of "", an Indian reality and stunt television series premiered first on 22 July 2017 and is broadcast on Colors TV.  The name of the season is "Khatron Ke Khiladi: Pain in Spain".  It airs on Saturday and Sunday nights at 9 PM.  The series is produced by Endemol India of Deepak Dhar.  This season also witnessed Nia Sharma coming back twice after being eliminated. Il burbero di buon cuore ("The Good-Hearted Curmudgeon") is an opera dramma giocoso in two acts by Vicente Martín y Soler.  The Italian libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte is based on the French comedy "Le bourru bienfaisant" by Carlo Goldoni.  The opera premiered on January 4, 1786 in Vienna at the Burgtheater with a cast that included three well known Viennese singers of the day: Nancy Storace as Angelica, Francesco Benucci as Ferramondo, and Maria Mandini as Marina.  The opera premiered in the same year and at the same house as Mozart's "Le nozze di Figaro", and both operas enjoyed revivals at the Burgtheater three years later — each boasting two new arias for new leading ladies.  The new arias for "Il burbero di buon cuore" (""Chi sa, chi sa, qual sia"" K. 582 in Act I and ""Vado, ma dove?""  K. 583 in Act II, both for Lucilla) were actually composed by Mozart, as Martín y Soler had left Vienna to work at the court of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg.  The opera recently received its first modern revival in 2007 at the Teatro Real in Madrid, a performance which was videotaped live and released on DVD in 2009. Simón Bolívar is an opera in two acts composed by Thea Musgrave who also wrote the libretto.  It is loosely based on episodes in the life of Simón Bolívar, the military and political leader who played a leading role in freeing Latin American countries from Spanish rule.  The opera premiered on 20 January 1995 performed by Virginia Opera at the Harrison Opera House in Norfolk, Virginia.  Although the libretto is written in English, the opera was performed at the premiere in Spanish translation. From the House of the Dead ("Z mrtvého domu" in Czech) is an opera by Leoš Janáček, in three acts.  The libretto was translated and adapted by the composer from the 1862 novel by Dostoyevsky.  It was the composer's last opera, premiered on 12 April 1930 in Brno, two years after his death. Bliss is an opera in three acts by Brett Dean to a libretto by Amanda Holden.  The libretto is based on Peter Carey's novel "Bliss", which had earlier been made into the 1985 film "Bliss".  The opera premiered at the Sydney Opera House on 12 March 2010 and has subsequently been performed in the United Kingdom and Germany.  A performance of the work lasts for about two hours and forty minutes. Harriet, the Woman Called Moses is an opera in two acts composed by Thea Musgrave who also wrote the libretto which is loosely based on episodes in the life of the American abolitionist and former slave Harriet Tubman.  The opera premiered on 1 March 1985 in Norfolk, Virginia, performed by Virginia Opera with subsequent broadcasts of the Virginia Opera production on National Public Radio and BBC Radio 3.  Musgrave later wrote two shortened versions of the opera—The Story of Harriet Tubman (premiered 1993) and Remembering Harriet (premiered 2006). Asrael is a "leggenda" or opera in four acts by composer Alberto Franchetti and librettist Ferdinando Fontana.  The plot, based on German fairy tale and folklore, displays the conflict between the spirit of evil and the spirit of Christian love, represented by Asrael and Nefta respectively.  The work is Franchetti's first opera and displays strong influences of Meyerbeer and Wagner, mixed with late 19th-century Italian idioms.  The opera premiered at the Teatro Municipale di Reggio on 11 February 1888.  The opera made its United States debut at the Metropolitan Opera on November 26, 1890 with Andreas Dippel in the title role. Det sjungande trädet ("The Singing Tree") Op.110 is an opera in two acts by the Finnish composer Erik Bergman.  The Swedish-language libretto, based on a Swedish fairy tale, was written by Bo Carpelan.  The opera premiered on 3 September 1995 at the Helsinki Opera House.
Answer: From the House of the Dead