La gazza ladra the opera for subsequent productions in Pesaro; and then in 1819 for the Teatro del Fondo, in Naples, in 1820 for the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, and in 1866 revised the music for performance in Paris. The first performance of "The Thieving Magpie" in England was at the King's Theatre, London, on 10 March 1821. As the French-language "La pie voleuse", the opera's first performance in the United States was at the Théâtre d'Orléans, New Orleans, on 30 December 1828. In 1941, Riccardo Zandonai composed a version of "The Thieving Magpie" for a revival of the opera in Pesaro.
La casa disabitata in Dresden. The story is not original. The opera's title, plot, setting, and characters are the same as those of Giovanni Giraud's one-act farce "La casa disabitata", first performed in 1808 and published in 1825. Giraud's play was also the basis of the two-act opera "La casa disabitata", composed by Lauro Rossi to a libretto by Jacopo Ferretti. Rossi's opera premiered at La Scala to great success in 1834, a year before Princess Amalie's version, and was subsequently performed throughout Italy and in Paris. Princess Amalie's "La casa disabitata" was performed in the small court theatre of Pillnitz Castle on