This performance of the excerpt from "Otello" was given with Christina Petrowska Quilico at Place des Arts, Montreal on April 22, 1994.
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 in many ofthe 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. After his retirement from the Metropolitan Opera, Quilico continued to perform and record, most often with his wife, concert pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico. The couple toured extensively together in duo recitals recorded four CDs, including Mr. Rigoletto: My Life in Music on Analekta, two books and a teaching video.
Quilico was one of the leading baritones of his generation. But it was his defining portrayal of Verdi’s hunchbacked jester that won him international acclaim and the sobriquet “Mr. Rigoletto”. He sang the role more than 500 times, the last being at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa in September 1994.
The rich quality of his robust voice was a testament to his own personally devised vocal techniques, which he generously shared with a new generation of singers and recorded in Mr. Rigoletto: In Conversation with Louis Quilico (Captus Press, 1996,1998), written with Quilico’s wife, Christina Petrowska Quilico.

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