Cetra Records was an Italian record company which produced opera recordings with artists such as
Maria Callas Maria Callas was an American-born Greek soprano and one of the most renowned opera singers of the twentieth century. She combined an impressive bel canto technique with great dramatic gifts...
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Renata TebaldiRenata Tebaldi was an Italian lirico-spinto soprano, popular in the post-war period...
, Carlo Bergonzi,
Rolando PaneraiRolando Panerai Italian baritone, particularly associated with the Italian repertory, he enjoyed a long and distinguished career in both comic and dramatic roles.Rolando Panerai was born in Ciampi Bisenzio, near Florence, Italy....
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Giuseppe TaddeiGiuseppe Taddei is an Italian baritone, performing mainly in operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Giuseppe Verdi.Taddei was born in Genoa, Italy, and studied in Rome, where he made his professional debut in 1936 as the Herald in Lohengrin. He sang at the Rome Opera until he was conscripted into...
and many more famous artists. The company achieved something of a triumph in the early 1950s when it produced many recordings of rare and under-rated Verdi operas to coincide with the 50th anniversary of his death in 1901. Cetra recordings are often now reissued by the company Warner Fonit Cetra.
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Cetra Records was an Italian record company which produced opera recordings with artists such as
Maria Callas Maria Callas was an American-born Greek soprano and one of the most renowned opera singers of the twentieth century. She combined an impressive bel canto technique with great dramatic gifts...
,
Renata TebaldiRenata Tebaldi was an Italian lirico-spinto soprano, popular in the post-war period...
, Carlo Bergonzi,
Rolando PaneraiRolando Panerai Italian baritone, particularly associated with the Italian repertory, he enjoyed a long and distinguished career in both comic and dramatic roles.Rolando Panerai was born in Ciampi Bisenzio, near Florence, Italy....
,
Giuseppe TaddeiGiuseppe Taddei is an Italian baritone, performing mainly in operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Giuseppe Verdi.Taddei was born in Genoa, Italy, and studied in Rome, where he made his professional debut in 1936 as the Herald in Lohengrin. He sang at the Rome Opera until he was conscripted into...
and many more famous artists. The company achieved something of a triumph in the early 1950s when it produced many recordings of rare and under-rated Verdi operas to coincide with the 50th anniversary of his death in 1901. Cetra recordings are often now reissued by the company Warner Fonit Cetra. Cetra opera albums were distributed in the United States on the Cetra-Soria label (founded by Dario and Dorle Soria, who later founded
Angel RecordsAngel Records is a record label belonging to EMI. It was formed in 1953 and specialised in classical music, but included an occasional operetta or Broadway score...
).
Cetra Records also produced popular music recordings from at least the World War Two years through the 1960's. One of their famous instrumental artists is accordionist Michele Corino, soloist with Italy's prominent "Orchestra Angelini" until he moved to San Francisco, CA in 1948. "Mike" ran a prominenet accordion studio in "North Beach Music" (a.k.a. Corino Music) and taught, worked and recorded with brothers Fabio and Gianfranco Giotta, part of the San Francisco based, world-famous Caffe Trieste. Gianfranco shared the studio with Mike on the 1963 Cetra album titled "Rome to Paris" and again with both brothers in the 1982 release of "Saturday Live at Caffe Trieste" (on Trieste Records)and also in 1999 with dedicated instrumental tracks from the formerly mentioned 1963 Cetra album as part of Gianfranco Giotta's compilation titled "Senza Te", also on Trieste Records.