Orango
2014"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.
Acted in
Esa-Pekka Salonen
as Self - Conductor
Natalia Pavlova
as Suzanna
Dmitro Koljeuško
as Ivanov
Natalia Jakimova
as Renée
Aleksander Šagun
as Armand Fleury
Aleksander Trofimov
as Paul Mâche
Ivan Novoselov
as Orango
Vladimir Babokin
as Foreigner 1
Oleg Losev
as Foreigner 2
Leo Elhardt
as Voice from the crowd
Denis Beganski
as The Entertainer
Juri Jevtšuk