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

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". <SEP> 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. <SEP> 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. <SEP> 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.