Orango (2014)

Orango

2014

Music Drama

Synopsis

"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.

Credits

Director

Elina Heiskanen

Cast

Aleksander Šagun as Armand Fleury

Aleksander Trofimov as Paul Mâche

Dmitro Koljeuško as Ivanov

Esa-Pekka Salonen as Self - Conductor

Ivan Novoselov as Orango

Leo Elhardt as Voice from the crowd

Natalia Jakimova as Renée

Natalia Pavlova as Suzanna