Orango
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2014-08-20
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Music
Drama
"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.
Featured Crew
| Dmitri Shostakovich | Original Music Composer |
| Aleksei Tolstoy | Original Story |
| Alexander Starchakov | Writer |
| Louis Price | Cinematography |
| Elina Heiskanen | Director |
