Orango

Overview

"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.

Directed by Elina Heiskanen

Top cast

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Self - Conductor

Natalia Pavlova

Suzanna

D

Dmitro Koljeuško

Ivanov

N

Natalia Jakimova

Renée

A

Aleksander Šagun

Armand Fleury

A

Aleksander Trofimov

Paul Mâche

I

Ivan Novoselov

Orango

V

Vladimir Babokin

Foreigner 1

O

Oleg Losev

Foreigner 2

L

Leo Elhardt

Voice from the crowd

D

Denis Beganski

The Entertainer

J

Juri Jevtšuk

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