Violeta Urmana

Narrated by Plácido Domingo, this 90 minute film includes scenes from the Parsifal concert filmed at the Ravello Wagner Festival, explores the history of the grail tradition and how it has been represented in various works, and, details the background in which Wagner wrote his grail opera, Parsifal.

Getting into his grandfather's pottery workshop at night, a little boy finds an unusually large vase. Fascinated, the child feels the still-warm material, which - whether by a miracle or the hand of a magician, who knows? - at once changes into a magnificent piece of Chinese porcelain. Presently, from behind the great blue-enamelled trees, there appears a fisherman in his sampan....That's how the story of The nightingale, told all in music, begins,...

An Egyptian soldier falls in love with a princess-turned-slave girl.