Fonotipia Records, or
Dischi Fonotipia, was an
Italian gramophone record label established in 1904 with a charter to record the art of leading
opera singers and some other celebrity musicians, chiefly
violinists. Fonotipia continued to operate into the electrical recording era, which commenced in 1925-26, by which time the company had been absorbed into
Odeon records. The records made by Fonotipia are prized by collectors and musicologists for their high technical quality, and for the high artistic merit and interest of much of what was captured for posterity.