Orango
Details
"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.
Cast & Crew
- Cast:Esa-Pekka Salonen , Natalia Pavlova , Dmitro Koljeuško , Natalia Jakimova , Aleksander Šagun , Aleksander Trofimov , Ivan Novoselov , Vladimir Babokin
- Director: Elina Heiskanen
