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Tenor Giovanni Martinelli to Sing at Waterbury’s Palace Theater Sunday

The Metropolitan Opera star is to give an afternoon concert on Jan. 9, followed by a banquet in his honor at the Hotel Elton.

By the Monochrome Chronicles desk, from reports by La Verità and Wikipedia
Edited by Daniel Varrone · Archive edition, written , about events of

File photo: the tenor Giovanni Martinelli in a portrait from the 1910s.
File photo: the tenor Giovanni Martinelli in a portrait from the 1910s.Photo: “Portrait of Giovanni Martinelli LCCN2004663292” by Carl Van Vechten, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Giovanni Martinelli, the Metropolitan Opera tenor, is to give a concert in Waterbury on Sunday, Jan. 9, at 3 p.m. at the Palace, under the management of E. Blankenburgh, La Verità reported.

The local Unico Club plans a reception and banquet in his honor at the Hotel Elton. The weekly named a committee headed by a local contractor to arrange the evening.

Martinelli, born in Italy in 1885, joined the Metropolitan Opera in 1913 and remained one of its leading tenors for more than three decades, according to a modern biography.

Sources

  1. La Verità (Waterbury), Jan. 8, 1927 (later source): the Palace concert and Unico Club banquet <https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn95063190/1927-01-08/ed-1/?sp=1>
  2. Wikipedia, Oct. 30, 2026 (later source): Martinelli’s birth year and Metropolitan Opera career <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Martinelli>

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