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''Orango'' is an unfinished satirical opera sketched in 1932 by Dmitri Shostakovich. The manuscript was found by Olga Digonskaya, a Russian musicologist, in the Glinka Museum, Moscow in 2004. The plan was for a prologue and three acts but only about a quarter, the ''Prologue'', was sketched. The libretto was written by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy and Alexander Osipovich Starchakov. Since Orango is the protagonist of the opera, half-ape and half-man, one of the sources of inspiration for the libretto was the work of Russian biologist, Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov who attempted hybridization of humans and other primates. According to McBurney, the word suggests ''orangutan''.〔 Shostakovich had visited Ivanov's primate research station in Sukhumi and "recommended it as a sight worth seeing."〔 The ''Prologue'' was first performed in an orchestration by Gerard McBurney on 2 December 2011 in Los Angeles, California by the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor) and staged by Peter Sellars (director). The piece was also performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra on 24th August 2015 at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the 2015 BBC Proms, again conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/r89mxj/by/date/2015/08/24#2015-08-24〕 Irina Brown was stage director. == 1932 commission == The Bolshoi Theatre commissioned the opera in 1932 intending it as a celebration of the 15th anniversary of the October Revolution. Alexei Tolstoy and Alexander Starchakov were engaged as librettists to work with Shostakovich and given the broad theme "'human growth during revolution and socialist construction.' Ultimately, the collaborators conceived their opera as 'a political lampoon against the bourgeois press,' adapting the plot from one of Starchakov's stories concerning a human-ape hybrid conceived in a medical experiment." When the librettists failed to deliver on schedule, Shostakovich, who was busy in the midst of composing Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, deferred then abandoned the project, discarding his draft.〔〔 Starchakov was arrested in 1936 and shot in 1937.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Orango (Shostakovich)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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