Libretto: Stephen Mitusov (after H.C. Andersen)
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.
Extras:
* Making of the film and on the special effects (26 min.)
* Post-production (26 min.)
* Audio recording session
* Photo album
* Sketches
* Set design: Forbidden City - animatic
* Special Effects
Nightingale - Natalie Dessay
Cook - Marie McLaughlin
Death - Violeta Urmana
Fisherman - Vsevolod Grivnov
Emperor - Albert Schagidullin
Chamberlain - Laurent Naouri
Bonze - Maxime Mikhailov
Japanese envoys - Olivier Berg,
Wassyl Slipak, Grzegorz Staskiewicz |
[ NTSC ]