Orango (2014)

Synopsis

"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 SalonenSelf - Conductor
• Natalia PavlovaSuzanna
• Dmitro KoljeuškoIvanov
• Natalia JakimovaRenée
• Aleksander ŠagunArmand Fleury
• Aleksander TrofimovPaul Mâche
• Ivan NovoselovOrango
• Vladimir BabokinForeigner 1
• Oleg LosevForeigner 2
• Leo ElhardtVoice from the crowd
• Denis BeganskiThe Entertainer
• Juri Jevtšuk

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