Question: When was the opera from which Una furtiva lagrima is taken first performed ?
Context: Heeralal Rampartap is an Indo-Trinidadian entertainer.  He has repeatedly produced hits and has won numerous awards both locally and internationally.  He is a three-time International Chutney Soca Monarch — in 1997, 2003 and 2005 – and the National Chutney Monarch of 2002 and 2003.  He has also taken first place in the Indian Cultural Pageant for three consecutive years and won the first Tuco Chutney Monarch in 2005 followed by two further wins in 2006, 2007 and 2008.  He received the National Humming Bird Silver Medal for Culture in Trinidad and Tobago in 2005. Prosper-Didier Deshayes (mid 18th century – 1815) was an opera composer and dancer who lived and worked in France.  In 1764 he was a balletmaster at the Comédie-Française.  By 1774 he had become an assistant ("adjoint") at the Paris Opéra.  His first opera "Le Faux serment ou La Matrone de Gonesse", a "comédie mêlée d'ariettes" in two acts, was first performed on 31 December 1785 at the Théâtre des Beaujolais in Paris and became a popular success.  He went on to have another 18 works performed at various venues in Paris, but only two, "La faut serment" and "Zélie, ou Le mari à deux femmes", a 3-act "drame" first performed at the Salle Louvois on 29 October 1791, were ever published as musical scores.  He also participated in the collaborative Revolutionary opera "Le congrès des rois", a 3-act "comédie mêlée d'ariettes", which combined music written by Deshayes and 11 other composers and was first performed by the Opéra-Comique at the Salle Favart on 26 February 1794.  He died in Paris. Una cosa rara, ossia Bellezza ed onestà ("A Rare Thing, or Beauty and Honesty") is an opera by the composer Vicente Martín y Soler.  It takes the form of a dramma giocoso in two acts.  The libretto, by Lorenzo Da Ponte, is based on the play "La luna de la sierra " by Luis Vélez de Guevara.  The opera was first performed at the Burgtheater, Vienna, on 17 November 1786.  It was a huge success and was shown 78 times.  Mozart quotes the music in the ensemble "O quanto in sì bel giubilo " towards the end of "Don Giovanni".) . Billy Ray Sims (born September 18, 1955) is a former American college and professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for five seasons during the 1980s.  Sims played college football for the University of Oklahoma, where he was a two-time consensus All-American, and won the Heisman Trophy in 1978.  He was the first overall pick in the 1980 NFL Draft, and played professionally for the NFL's Detroit Lions.  Sims was the last Oklahoma player taken Number 1 overall in the NFL Draft until quarterback Sam Bradford was taken first in the 2010 NFL Draft.  He was given the nickname "Kung Fu Billy Sims" by ESPN's Chris Berman, after a game where the Detroit Lions played the Houston Oilers.  In the NFL Films highlight, rather than be tackled during a rushing attempt, Sims ran at, jumped, and, while fully airborne, kicked Oilers Cornerback Steve Brown in the head. "Una furtiva lagrima " (A furtive tear) is the romanza from act 2, scene 8 of the Italian opera "L'elisir d'amore" by Gaetano Donizetti.  It is sung by Nemorino (tenor) when he finds that the love potion he bought to win the heart of his dream lady, Adina, works. LaRue Martin (born March 30, 1950) is a retired American professional basketball player.  Martin was taken first overall by the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Portland Trail Blazers in 1972, drafted ahead of future Hall of Famers Bob McAdoo and Julius Erving.  Martin has been cited as the worst first overall draft pick in NBA history. The Florida Marlins made Adrian Gonzalez of Eastlake High School in Chula Vista, California the first overall selection in the 2000 First-Year Player Draft.  Gonzalez, who was rated as the best pure high school hitter in the draft by "Baseball America", was the first high school first baseman taken first overall since the New York Yankees chose Ron Blomberg in 1967.  In his senior year, Gonzalez hit .645 with 13 home runs and 34 RBI. Ioan Bălan (February 11, 1880 – August 4, 1959) was a Romanian bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church.  Born in Teiuş, Alba County, he studied theology in Budapest and was ordained a priest in 1903.  He continued his studies in Vienna, moved to Blaj and then in 1909 to Bucharest, where a Greek-Catholic confessor was needed.  In 1919 he returned to Blaj, becoming canon and in 1921 rector of the theological academy.  In 1936, after Alexandru Nicolescu became Metropolitan of Făgăraş and Alba Iulia, he was consecrated Bishop of Lugoj.  In 1948, the new Communist regime outlawed his church and he was arrested in October after refusing to convert to Romanian Orthodoxy.  He was taken first to Dragoslavele Monastery, then to Căldăruşani Monastery in early 1949 and to Sighet prison in mid-1950.  In 1955, he was forced to live at Curtea de Argeș Monastery.  The following year he was taken to Samurcăşeşti Monastery, a nunnery in Ciorogârla.  He remained there in isolation until he became gravely ill and was taken to a Bucharest hospital, where he died.  He was buried at the Bellu Catholic cemetery.  Bălan was never tried or sentenced. The 2000 NHL Entry Draft was held from June 24 to 25 at the Pengrowth (now Scotiabank) Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta, following the 2000 NHL Expansion Draft on June 23 for the Columbus Blue Jackets and Minnesota Wild.  This was the second NHL Entry Draft in which a goaltender was taken first overall (at that point), when the New York Islanders selected Rick DiPietro with the first overall pick.  Previously, Michel Plasse was selected 1st overall in the 1968 NHL Amateur Draft. 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.
Answer: 12 May 1832