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I said somewhere that it wasn’t enough to listen to music, you also had to see it. Igor Stravinsky 150 years later, in an age of excessive mediatization, this Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale finds new resonance: a small, insignificant gray nightingale reluctantly finds itself the star of a TV show. The powers that be who oversee ratings-hungry “media order” appreciate the unusual virtuosity of this nightingale as a top attraction. But they underestimate the stubbornness and determination of this little bird which, by its very song, manages to make a mockery of the over-the-top prime-time spectacle; at the same time it awakens the artisans and artists who are the sole guardians of Chinese art. Objects and musical instruments rally around the nightingale’s song while the old emperor, a patron of the arts, recovers his power in his liberated porcelain palace. This TV adaptation of Igor Stravinsky’s one-act opera Nightingale blends opera and digital technology and boasts a first-class cast, with Natalie Dessay in the title role.

France - 2004 - 50 mn - HD • 16/9 - Colour

Director Christian Chaudet Camera Jean-Jacques Bouhon, Emmanuel Soyer Sound Christinel Sirli Sets Alain Vibet, Valérie Perrier Music Igor Stravinsky Cast Natalie Dessay, Marie Mc Laughlin, Violeta Urmana, Vsevolod Grivnov, Albert Schagidullin, Laurent Naouri, Maxime Mikhailov

Production Agat Films & Cie, 52, rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011 Paris, France Tél : +33 (0)1 5336 3232 Fax : +33 (0)1 4357 0022 E-mail : production@agatfilms.com Co-Production ARTE France, Mikros Image

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