The Nightingale
The Nightingale (Russian: Соловей, romanized: Solovey) is a short opera in three acts by Igor Stravinsky to a Russian-language libretto by him and Stepan Mitusov, based on a tale by Hans Christian Andersen: a Chinese Emperor is reduced to tears and made kind by a small grey bird. It was completed on 28 March 1914 and premiered a few weeks later, on 26 May, by the Ballets Russes conducted by Pierre Monteux at the Palais Garnier in Paris. Publication, by the then Paris-based Éditions Russes de Musique, followed only in 1923 and caused the opera to become known by its French title of Le Rossignol and French descriptor of conte lyrique, or lyric tale, despite its being wholly Russian.
Movements
Act 2
- Conclusion, Larghetto
- Entr'acte: Breezes
Act 3
- A Room in the Palace of the Emperor
- The Emperor's Recovery
- The Return of the Nightingale
- Scene I. Chamberlain and Bonze
- Scene I. Chamberlain and Bonze
- Scene I. Chamberlain, Bonze, Cook, Courtiers
- Scene I. Fisherman
- Scene I. Fisherman
- Scene I. Introduction
- Scene I. Nightingale's Aria
- Scene I. Nightingale's Second Aria
- Scene I. Second Entrance of the Nightingale
- Scene II. Chamberlain
- Scene II. Chinese March
- Scene II. Cook
- Scene II. Fisherman
- Scene II. Performance of the Mechanical Nightingale
- Scene II. Prelude: Chorus and Orchestra
- Scene II. Reprise of the Chinese March
- Scene II. Reprise of the Prelude
- Scene II. Song of the Nightingale
- Scene II. Three Japanese Envoys
- Scene II.The Courtiers
- Scene III. Chorus of Ghosts, Emperor
- Scene III. Death and the Nightingale
- Scene III. Emperor and Nightingale
- Scene III. Fisherman
- Scene III. Nightingale
- Scene III. Prelude
- Scene III. Solemn Procession
- Scene III. The Nightingale's Aria