Le marchand de Venise

Le Marchand de Venise (The Merchant of Venice) is a French opera in three acts by Reynaldo Hahn.

[1] It was revived at the Opéra on 18 November 1949 and again on 19 February 1950, and in 1979 at the Opéra-Comique under Manuel Rosenthal.

The United States premiere was by the Portland Opera on 4 November 1996 under French conductor Marc Trautmann.

In May 2017 the opera received its German premiere at the Theater Bielefeld in a production by Klaus Hemmerle conducted by Pawel Poplawski.

[2] The story follows Shakespeare's play, The Merchant of Venice, but with some transpositions of the text.