Le rossignol
(DVD Video)

Bonus: making of the film (26 min.) - post-production (26 min.) - audio recording session.

Program notes in French, English and German inserted in container.

Libretto by the composer & Stephan Mitusov, after H.C. Andersen ; film producer, Dominique Barneaud.

Natalie Dessay, Hugo Simcic, Marie McLaughlin, Violeta Urmana, Vsevolod Grivnov, Albert Schagidullin, Laurent Naouri, Maxime Mikhailov (soloists) ; Orchestra & Chorus of L'Opera National de Paris ; James Conlon, conductor.

Getting into his grandfather's pottery workshop at night, a little boy finds an unusually large vase. Fascinated, the child feels the still-warm material, which - whether by a miracle or 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.

DVD 9 ; Dolby digital 5.1 ; LPCM stereo ; NTSC system 16.9 (compatible 4:3)

Sung in Russian; subtitles in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish.