Lawrence Tibbett, Stella Roman, and Alessio de Paolis, under Ettore Panizza. Some of these transcriptions have been issued on LP and CD. On 6 August 1926, Martinelli appeared in a Vitaphone short film, singing "Vesti la giubba" from Pagliacci, one of eight short films shown before the Warner Brothers feature film Don Juan starring John Barrymore. Several episodes of a DuMont TV series hosted by him called Opera Cameos (1953–55) are in the collection of the Paley Center for Media. Sources Roland Mancini and Jean-Jacques Rouveroux, (orig. H. Rosenthal and J. Warrack, French edition), Guide de l’opéra, Les indispensables de la musique (Fayard, 1995). Harold Rosenthal and John Warrack, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, second edition, (Oxford University Press, London, 1980). J. B. Steane, The Grand Tradition (Duckworth, London, 1974). References External links Official website (English version to follow) History of the Tenor / Giovanni Martinelli / Sound Clips and Narration Giovanni Martinelli recordings at the Discography of American Historical Recordings. 1885 births 1969 deaths People from Montagnana Italian operatic tenors 20th-century Italian male opera singers Victor Records artists