Penelope Shumate
Recorded at Abbey Road Studios with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
"How beautiful are the feet"
Title role in the world premiere of Kassandra
Opera in the Heights
(Video Excerpts)
Kassandra -
"Rossignol, mon mignon" and "Ciel, aer, et vens"
from Deux poèmes de Ronsard - Roussel
with John McMurtery
"Verde Verderol" and "Pájaro del Agua"
from Dos Poemas de Juan Ramón Jiménez - Joaquin Rodrigo, with John McMurtery
"Amor y odio"
with Jeffrey Brown
"El Majo discreto"
with Lise Keiter
from Tonadillas en un estilo antiguo - Granados
"Strider sento la procella" from Lucio Silla - Mozart
with Po-Chuan Chiang
"Wem der grosse Wurf gelungen"
and
"Freude trinken alle Wesen"
"Freude, Tochter aus Elysium"
and
"Alle Menschen werden Brüder"
from Symphony No. 9 - Beethoven, with Heartland Festival Orchestra
"As it fell upon a day" - Copland
with John McMurtery and Eric Ginsberg
"Ah! perfido" - Beethoven
with Maestro Gregory Wolynec
and the APSU Symphony Orchestra
"Quasi Menuetto"
from Three Vocalises - R. Vaughan Williams
with Eric Ginsberg
"Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion"
from Messiah - Handel
with Lise Keiter
"Notre amour" - Fauré with Lise Keiter
"Die Lotosblume" - Schumann
with Lise Keiter
"Serenádtha Stó parátheero toú sofoú"
from Four Greek Songs - Constantinides
with Michael Gurt
"Art is calling for me"
from The Enchantress - Herbert
with Lise Keiter
"Dirge"
Selections from Six Elizabethan Songs - Argento
with Jeffrey Brown
"Winter"
Selections from Dichterliebe - Schumann
with Michael Borowitz
"Aus alten Märchen"
"Die Rose, die Lilie"
Performance video as the Soprano Soloist in Messiah at David Geffen Hall (formerly Avery Fisher Hall)
at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall available upon request
Penelope Shumate; the voice of the Violetta Opera Bear who sings “Sempre Libera” from Verdi’s La Traviata.
Violetta
Opera Bear
