Le Rossignol

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.