Label: Recital – Twenty Six Format: Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition, Reissue Country: US Released: 3 Dec 2021 Genre: Classical Style: Opera
Her son Loren Connors writes...
These recordings, no matter how rough the sound quality, capture the essence of the art of bel canto soprano Mary Mazzacane. Born in an Italian American neighborhood (Fairhaven) near Yale, she was one of the first women to graduate from the Yale School of Music. Ms. Mazzacane, who was active on the opera stage from 1947 through the 1970’s, playing leading roles in Madame Butterfly, Tosca, Amahl and the Night Visitors and other works, left no commercial recordings. All we have is a shoebox full of muddy practice sessions and live performance recordings on barely playable cassette tapes, along with a few radio broadcast acetates... Throughout these pieces, her voice has a unique inner warmth and a beautifully clear tone, the closest I know to the pure clarity of bells.. (mint / new)
Tracklist A1 Opening Scene (1969) 5:30 A2 All That Gold (1969) 2:18 A3 Farewell Scene (1969) 1:10 A4 Steal Me, Sweet Thief (1970s) 2:30 A5 La Vergine Degli Angeli 2:37 A6 Silent Night (1980s) 2:23 A7 Ave Maria (1970) 2:46 B1 Vissi D'Arte 3:07 B2 Voi Lo Sapete, O Mamma (1952) 5:16 B3 Ah! Lo Vedi Fragment (1952) 1:40 B4 Salce, Salce & Ave Maria (1951) 8:59 B5 Peace (1974) 1:24
