{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox television | image = | caption = | alt_name = | genre = Music | creator = | writer = | director = | developer = | presenter = | starring = Giovanni Martinelli | voices = | narrator = | theme_music_composer = | open_theme = | end_theme = | composer = | country = United States | language = English | num_seasons = | num_episodes = | list_episodes = | executive_producer = | producer = | editor = | location = | cinematography = | runtime = 30 minutes | channel = DuMont | first_aired = {{start date|1953|11|8}} | last_aired = {{end date|1955|1|9}} }} '''''Opera Cameos''''' is a TV series that aired on the DuMont Television Network from November 8, 1953, to January 9, 1955.<ref name=tt>{{cite book|last1=McNeil|first1=Alex|title=Total Television: the Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present |date=1996|publisher=Penguin Books USA, Inc.|location=New York, New York|isbn=0-14-02-4916-8|page= 626|edition=4th}}</ref>
==Overview== The program aired Sundays at 7:30pm ET,<ref name=t/> and was hosted by opera singer Giovanni Martinelli.<ref name=tt/> A conductor on the program was Salvatore Dell'Isola.{{Citation needed |date=April 2025}} It presented excerpts from operas in their original languages. The program was broadcast locally in New York City before it was picked up by DuMont.<ref name="t">{{cite news |last1=Coleman |first1=Bill |title=Radiopinion and Televisionotes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tablet/169501030/ |access-date=April 3, 2025 |work=The Tablet |date=November 21, 1953 |location=New York, Brooklyn |page=19|via = Newspapers.com }}</ref>
==Episodes status== The Paley Center for Media has eight episodes, with the remaining episodes presumed lost.{{Citation needed |date=April 2025}}
==See also== *List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network *List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts *1954-55 United States network television schedule
==References== {{reflist}}
==Bibliography== *Barnes, Scott [http://www.metoperafamily.org/operanews/issue/article.aspx?id=2836&issueID=127&archive=true "Vintage Portraits"], ''Opera News'', November, 2007. Accessed via subscription 27 October 2008. *Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows'', Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964) {{ISBN|0-345-31864-1}} *Alex McNeil, ''Total Television'', fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980) {{ISBN|0-14-024916-8}} *David Weinstein, ''The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television'' (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004) {{ISBN|1-59213-245-6}}
==External links== *{{IMDb title|0331773}} *[https://dumonthistory.com/a2.html DuMont historical website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214203158/https://dumonthistory.com/a2.html |date=February 14, 2022 }}
Category:DuMont Television Network original programming Category:Black-and-white American television shows Category:1953 American television series debuts Category:1955 American television series endings Category:Works about opera
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