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This is actually a choreo-opera, aiming to delight with both its music and the beauty of its movement, colour, and choreographic gesture. This performance by the Mariinsky Theatre, presenting uniquely stunning visual images and perfect performance, has been a permanent item in the great theatre’s repertoire for many years. Stravinsky was the inventor of the themes for many of his stage pieces and the joint or sole author of the librettos. This concern for the literary and philosophical foundation of his works stemmed from his broader aesthetic and ethical concept, its essence being to restore the severed connection between Good and Beauty. The story of the marvellous bird whose wondrous song entertained, moved, and healed people is an excellent expression of this concept’s core idea. “And the nightingale sang so beautifully that tears came into the emperor’s eyes, and when they flowed down his cheeks the nightingale sang even more delightfully, and it went straight to his heart”, wrote Hans Christian Andersen in his fairy tale.


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