Getting into his grandfather's pottery workship at night, a little boy finds an unusually large vase. Fascinated, the child feels the still-warm material, which - whether by a miracle ot the hand of a magician, who knows? - at once changes into a magnificent piece of Chinese porcelain. Presently, from behind the great blue-enamelled trees, there appears a fisherman in his sampan... That's how the story of "The Nightingale", told all in music, begins, as the waking dream of a child in the land of Chinese art - and of mobile phones and webcams.

Genres

Cast

Natalie Dessay

Le Rossignol

Violeta Urmana

The Death

Marie McLaughlin

The cook

Laurent Naouri

Le Chambellan

Albert Schagidullin

The Emperor

Jim Adhi Limas

The doorman

Guerassim Dichliev

Mimes / Hands

Benoît Turjman

Mimes / Hands