Orango

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2014 · 34 min · Music · Drama

Overview

"Orango" - prologue to an unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, performed by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Mariinsky Theatre Academy. In the 1920s, Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov carried out a series of experiments to create a human/nonhuman ape hybrid. Three female chimpanzees were inseminated with human sperm. No pregnancy occurred.. In 1929 he organized a set of experiments involving nonhuman ape sperm and human volunteers, but was delayed by the death of his last orangutan.

Directed by Elina Heiskanen

Cast

• Esa-Pekka Salonen — Self - Conductor
• Natalia Pavlova — Suzanna
• Dmitro Koljeuško — Ivanov
• Natalia Jakimova — Renée
• Aleksander Šagun — Armand Fleury