Orango

"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.

Country:

Finland

Genre:

Music,

Drama

Duration:

34 minutes

Year:

2014

Director:

Elina Heiskanen

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Company:

YLE

Cast:

Self - Conductor

Suzanna

Ivanov

Renée

Armand Fleury

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