"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.
Stars: Esa-Pekka Salonen, Natalia Pavlova, Dmitro Koljeuško, Natalia Jakimova, Aleksander Šagun, Aleksander Trofimov
Crew: Dmitri Shostakovich (Original Music Composer), Aleksei Tolstoy (Original Story), Alexander Starchakov (Writer), Louis Price (Cinematography), Elina Heiskanen (Director)
Country: Finland
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Studio: YLE
Runtime: 34 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Aug 20, 2014
IMDb: 10
Keywords:opera, opera prologue
