 These include the first UK performance in April 1830 and the first in the USA in December 1832.Weinstock recounts that the opera was given on 1 January 1935 in Rome to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the composer's death.At the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania it was staged in November 1951 under Tullio Serafin as well at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo in January 1958, a production which was given a few months later at La Scala and which "became the most notable of modern revivals of "Il pirata"...headed by Maria Meneghini Callas and Franco Corelli."