Le vaisseau fantôme

Le vaisseau fantôme ("The Phantom Ship") is an opera in two acts and three tableaux by Pierre-Louis Dietsch to a French libretto by Paul Foucher and Bénédict-Henry Révoil, based on Captain Marryat's novel The Phantom Ship, Sir Walter Scott's The Pirate, as well as tales by Heinrich Heine, James Fenimore Cooper, and Wilhelm Hauff.

[1] It was premiered on 9 November 1842 by the Paris Opera at the Salle Le Peletier and received 12 performances.

Although Pillet was interested, he determined to contract librettist Paul Foucher and Dietsch to create the work.

According to Nicole Wild, the eponymous ship only appeared on the poster, and the spectators searched for it in vain.

The cast included Sally Matthews as Minna, Bernhard Richter as Magnus, Eric Cutler as Erik and Russell Braun as Troil.