Orango
2014•34m•Released
MusicDrama
"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.
Director
Elina Heiskanen
Writer
Alexander Starchakov
Studio
YLE
Cast
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Self - Conductor
Natalia Pavlova
Suzanna
Dmitro Koljeuško
Ivanov
Natalia Jakimova
Renée
Aleksander Šagun
Armand Fleury
Aleksander Trofimov
Paul Mâche
Ivan Novoselov
Orango
Vladimir Babokin
Foreigner 1
Oleg Losev
Foreigner 2
Leo Elhardt
Voice from the crowd
Denis Beganski
The Entertainer
Juri Jevtšuk
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