Orango

Orango prologue to an unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich 19061975 conducted by EsaPekka 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 humannonhuman 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