"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.
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Esa-Pekka Salonen as Self - Conductor
Natalia Pavlova as Suzanna
Dmitro Koljeuško as Ivanov
Natalia Jakimova as Renée
Aleksander Šagun as Armand Fleury
Aleksander Trofimov as Paul Mâche
Ivan Novoselov as Orango
Vladimir Babokin as Foreigner 1
Top Crew
Elina Heiskanen · Director
Alexander Starchakov · Writer
Dmitri Shostakovich · Composer
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