The Nightingale and the Chinese Emperor after Andersen

Le Rossignol et l'Empereur (The Nightingale and the Emperor), a chinoiserie written by a storyteller who has never been to China, offers plenty of food for thought and provides an opportunity to hear the disappearing instruments so dear to 18th-century birdwatchers and bird lovers, the bird flageolets. This tale also takes a contemporary look at the relationship between humans and animals, at a time when biodiversity is under threat and birds are gradually disappearing from our soundscape. A family show.

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