mercantile
... that the director David Pountney was once part of a mercantile silence, but now is part of the noise?
... that the director <a href="./David_Pountney" id="mw9w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="David Pountney">David Pountney</a> was once part of a <b id="mw-A"><a href="./The_Merchant_of_Venice_(opera)" id="mw-Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="The Merchant of Venice (opera)">mercantile</a></b> silence, but now is part of the noise?