Cetra Records

Its roster of artists included Maria Callas, Renata Tebaldi, Lina Pagliughi, Ebe Stignani, Carlo Bergonzi, Galliano Masini, Giovanni Malipiero, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Carlo Tagliabue, Rolando Panerai, Italo Tajo, Giuseppe Taddei, Tancredi Pasero and Cesare Siepi, among other leading Italian opera singers.

[1] Cetra also produced popular music recordings from at least the World War II years through the 1960s.

One of their instrumental artists is accordionist Michele Corino, a soloist with Italy's prominent Angelini Orchestrauntil he moved to San Francisco (California), in 1948.

Initially, the Cetra only made its own recordings and the distribution of the discs, for the printing of which it used instead of the Parlophon as easily found on the labels.

After the war it continues to have a prominent position on the market, thanks to artists such as Nilla Pizzi, Achille Togliani, Claudio Villa (since 1957), and to the work of its general manager, Edgardo Trinelli.