This audiovisual adaptation of Igor Stravinsky’s Nightingale is an innovative and ambitious film, mixing opera with digital techniques, as well as stage references with the fiction of a beautiful tale. This piece is based on H.C. Andersen’s fairy tale. It offers superb narrative and visual ingredients, detailed in Stravinsky’s directing indications, as well as a world class casting lead by Natalie Dessay as the The Nightingale. The Nightingale will be broadcast during the upcoming 2005-06 season of Thirteen/WNET New York’s Great Performances series on PBS.
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