Orango

"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.

• Release date
• August 20, 2014
• Runtime
• 34 min
• Genres
• Music, Drama
• Director
• Elina Heiskanen

Cast

Esa-Pekka Salonen Self - Conductor Natalia Pavlova Suzanna

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Dmitro Koljeuško Ivanov

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Natalia Jakimova Renée

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Aleksander Šagun Armand Fleury

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Aleksander Trofimov Paul Mâche

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Ivan Novoselov Orango

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Vladimir Babokin Foreigner 1