Artist: Penelope Shumate
Album: Kassandra: A Chamber Opera in Five Scenes
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2022
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 48 kHz
Duration: 47:06
Total Tracks: 5
Total Size: 490 MB

Tracklist:

1-01. Penelope Shumate – A Ted-Style Talk (10:35)
1-02. Penelope Shumate – A Conference Room at Apollo Industries (11:30)
1-03. Penelope Shumate – The HR Department at Apollo Industries (06:42)
1-04. Penelope Shumate – Various Offices and Conference Rooms (13:01)
1-05. Penelope Shumate – By the Sea (05:16)

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On KASSANDRA, composer Anthony Brandt and librettist Neena Beber explore two leading issues of our times — climate change and sexual harassment. Based on the Greek myth of Apollo trying to seduce Trojan princess Cassandra, Brandt and Beber tell the tragic yet familiar story of Kassandra, a scientist whose forecasts of climate change are discredited as a result of rejecting sexual advances from a venture capitalist. In the ancient myth, Apollo places a curse on Cassandra: she will see the future but no one will believe her. In today’s world, scientists face a similar curse, their warnings of our warming planet too often ignored. Brandt and Beber’s chamber opera challenges us to heed Kassandra’s predictions.