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.
Natalie Dessay
as Le Rossignol
Violeta Urmana
as The Death
Marie McLaughlin
as The cook
Laurent Naouri
as Le Chambellan
Albert Schagidullin
as The Emperor
Maxim Mikhailov
as Le Bonze
Vsevolod Grivnov
as The fisherman
Hugo Simcic
as The child
Jim Adhi Limas
as The doorman
Yong Geol Kim
as Japanese ambassador