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.
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Esa-Pekka SalonenConductor
Natalia PavlovaSuzannaDmitro KoljeuškoIvanovNatalia JakimovaRenéeAleksander ŠagunArmand FleuryAleksander TrofimovPaul MâcheIvan NovoselovOrangoVladimir BabokinForeigner 1Oleg LosevForeigner 2Leo ElhardtVoice from the crowdDenis BeganskiThe EntertainerJuri JevtšukKeywords
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What is Orango about?
"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.
How long is Orango?
Orango has a runtime of 34 minutes.