Nightingale

Hans Christian Andersen’s uplifting fairytale is an early critical metaphor about art versus our modern fascination with technology. In ancient China, the emperor invites the greatest artist of the land­—a nightingale—to perform for him and he is delighted. But the arrival of a mechanical nightingale captures his attention and he abandons the real nightingale, nearly costing him his life.

Music by Igor Stravinsky

​Based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Anderson

​In Russian with English Surtitles