Delia Valeri

Valeri taught voice students and opera professionals in New York and Chicago,^[2] including Regina Vicarino, Maude Fay, Melanie Kurt, Margaret Matzenauer, Clara Clemens, and Frieda Hempel.^[3][4][5] She worked with African-American soprano Florence Cole Talbert in Italy in the 1920s.^[6][7] Her male clients included Clarence Whitehill.^[8] She also provided piano accompaniment at recitals.^[1]

In 1942 Valeri opened a studio in Hollywood.^[8]

Delia Micucci married August Valeri in New York City about 1901. They had daughters Adelaide and Rosa. In 1914, Delia Valeri won a $2000 judgment after a chronic stomach ailment she traced to a meal on a pullman car.^[9][10] In 1915, August and Delia Valeri were passengers in a car with Margaret Matzenauer and her husband Edoardo Ferrari-Fontana when it was involved in a collision in New York.^[11][12] Valeri died in 1947, aged 76, in Los Angeles, California.^[13]