Amilie, or the Love Test

Amilie, or the Love Test is an opera in three acts by the Irish composer, William Michael Rooke, to a libretto by John Thomas Haines.

[2] The music critic George Hogarth considered that the work displayed "genius, learning, taste, and a rich vein of melody, flowing, graceful and expressive", whilst the orchestral writing was "skillful and beautiful".

Michael William Balfe (who had studied with Rooke as a boy)[2] sang the baritone role in a performance at the Theatre Royal, Dublin in 1838,[5] and the opera was performed in New York at the National Theatre on 15 October in the same year, with Jane Shirreff repeating the title role in her American debut and with the Scottish tenor John Wilson as Jose.

[8] The work's success gave rise to further performances in America, including a burlesque version by the actor-manager William Mitchell at the Olympic Theatre, New York, in 1839, entitled Amy Lee, or Who Loves Best?

[9] The existence of manuscript orchestral parts, copied in New York, with the stamp of a Melbourne agent, in the National Library of Australia[10] suggests there must also have been antipodean performances.