Opera
Orango
Description
Age category: 16+
Duration: 35 minutes
Number of intermissions: 0
Unfinished opera buffa
Libretto by Alexey Tolstoy and Alexander Starchakov
Instrumentation by Gerard McBurney
Sets are created according to theatrical sketches of Alexandra Exter
The prologue to the opera was written in 1932. The world premiere was performed in Perm in 2015. Running time: 35 minutes
The operaOrango, which was for many years considered lost (or rather, its prologue was), was discovered in the archives of the Glinka Museum of Musical Culture in 2004.
Shostakovich started working on Orango (from orangutan), which is set in the Soviet Union, in 1932 when the whole of the science and art worlds were seized by the idea of creating a super-being, an experimental half human, half animal.
directors
Musical Director and Conductor:
Teodor Currentzis
Choreographer and Stage Director:
Alexey Miroshnichenko
Chorus Master:
Vitaly Polonsky
Costume Designer:
Tatiana Noginova
Lighting Designer:
Alexey Khoroshev
Set Designer:
Andrey Voitenko
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