Louis Quilico’s sudden death on July 15, 2000 in Toronto, Canada marked the end of an exceptional career. He had performed major baritone roles at many of the world’s great opera houses, including Covent Garden, the Paris Opera, Bolshoi and the Vienna Staatsoper. Nearly 300 appearances alone took place over 25 years at the Metropolitan Opera, where he performed with tenors Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Jon Vickers and José Carreras, and sopranos Joan Sutherland, Renata Tebaldi, Renata Scotto and Beverly Sills, among others; and such leading conductors as James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Richard Bonynge and Claudio Abbado. Since his marriage to concert pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico,C.M., OOnt, FRSC, the couple toured extensively in duo recitals, recorded four CDs including Mr. Rigoletto: My Life in Music on Analekta, and collaborated on two books and a teaching video. Louis dedicated his autobiography and his final CD Mr. Rigoletto: My Life in Music to Christina, of whom he wrote: “She has an unsurpassed artistic quality, which makes performing with her such a great joy and so wonderful that it cannot be compared to anything else. When we perform we breathe and think musically as one.”
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Christina Petrowska Quilico CM, OOnt FRSC, is a Canadian pianist. She is a professor emerita, senior scholar at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2020 “For her celebrated career as a classical and contemporary pianist and for championing Canadian music.” Her Order of Ontario citation "Celebrated pianist, Christina-Petrowska Quilico has opened the ears of music lovers through numerous performances of classical and contemporary repertoire with orchestra and as soloist and on over 50 internationally acclaimed recordings.
She is considered one of Canada’s best 25 classical pianists and distinguished for her technical mastery of the keys and unique musical interpretations, and with an unrelenting promotion of Canadian music. A towering virtuoso who interprets works from any compositional aesthetic with world-class execution in seemingly inexhaustible efforts, Professor Petrowska-Quilico was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
The New York Times hailed her as a “promethean talent” giving solo and chamber recitals at many of the city’s venerated recital halls including Carnegie Hall, garnering superlatives from critics deeming her “an extraordinary talent with phenomenal ability”.
Professor of Musicology and Piano at York University, she has received esteemed Research Awards and as a benefactor established The Christina and Louis Quilico Award at the Ontario Arts Foundation and the Canadian Opera Company."



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