Le rossignol (The Nightingale)

Composer: Stravinsky, Igor

Librettist/Text Author: Stravinsky, Igor

Librettist/Text Author: Mitusov, Stephan

Conductor: Ono, Kazushi

Orchestra: Lyon National Opera Orchestra

Chorus: Lyon National Opera Chorus

Chorus Master: Woodbridge, Alan

Chambellan: Suliman, Nabil

L'Empereur de Chine: Bannik, Ilya

La Cuisiniere: Semenova, Elena

La Mort: Shilova, Svetlana

Le Bonze: Vorobiev, Yuri

Le Pecheur: Montvidas, Edgaras

Le Rossignol: Peretyatko, Olga

Set Designer: Fillion, Carl

Costume Designer: Gottler, Mara

Lighting Designer: Boucher, Etienne

Stage Director: Lepage, Robert

Television Director: Perlemuter, Chloe

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Date of Production: 2010

Festival: Aix-en-Provence Festival

Playing Time: 01:35:59

Catalogue Number: P359

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In The Nightingale', Robert Lepage incorporates the usual operatic arts, adds puppetry and acrobatics, and reverses the usual performance arrangement by placing the orchestra on the stage and turning the orchestra pit into a shimmering pool of water. This alchemy transmutes some children's tales about animals into an unusually integrated and spellbinding piece of theater.

The triumph of this Nightingale production is the way in which all the arts illuminate the music in an emotional rather than purely plot - and character-centered manner while remaining firmly grounded in storytelling... (The Wall Street Journal)