Louis Quilico and Christina Petrowska Quilico Encore at New York Concert

Описание: Louis Quilico, sings an Encore "Buonanotte Mamma by Luigi Pagano & Bixio Cherubini with his wife, Christina Quilico at the piano.
Louis Quilico, C.C., one of the leading dramatic baritones of his day, had an exceptional career as a major baritone in the world’s great opera houses: Covent Garden, Paris Opera, Bolshoi, Vienna Staatsoper and 25 years at the Metropolitan Opera. He performed with Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Jon Vickers, José Carreras, sopranos Joan Sutherland, Monserrat Caballé, Renata Tebaldi, Renata Scotto Beverly Sills, Mirella Freni, among many other great singers. Conductors that he worked with included James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Richard Bonynge, Claudio Abbado to name only a few. Louis Quilico, C.C. was an ideal interpreter of the great Italian and French composers, especially Giuseppe Verdi and he was often referred to as "Mr Rigoletto" in reference to the Verdi opera. Since his marriage to the celebrated Canadian concert pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico C.M, OOnt, FRSC the couple toured extensively, recorded 4 recital CDs, including Mr. Rigoletto: My Life in Music on Analekta, and collaborated on two books and a teaching video. Christina’s deep commitment to music education was shared with her late husband. To carry on his legacy of support for outstanding young singers, she created the Christina and Louis Quilico Award, administered by the Ontario Arts Foundation, in conjunction with the Canadian Opera Company (COC) and the COC Ensemble Studio.
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CHRISTINA PETROWSKA QUILICO, C.M., OOnt, FRSC, was appointed to the Order of Canada “for her celebrated career as a classical and contemporary pianist, and for championing Canadian music” and received the Order of Ontario. She was inducted to the Royal Society of Canada “the country’s highest honor an individual can achieve in the Arts, Social Sciences”. Her “astonishing contribution to musical life in Canada, particularly her teaching and advocacy of Canadian and women composers,” earned her the treasured Oskar Morawetz Prize in 2023, with the jury asserting, “She is legend.” The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation named her” one of “Canada’s 25 best classical pianists and and inducted her into CBC’s “In Concert Hall of Fame”. Four of her 60 CDs have earned JUNO Awards nominations including Glass Houses Revisited by Ann Southam. Solo concerts and performances of 53 concertos with orchestra have taken her across the U.S. and Canada, as well as to Taiwan, the Middle East, France, England, Germany, Greece.. Her recent CDs have landed on four best-of- lists in Canada and abroad and “Vintage Americana” was one of the winners in the classical category of the Global Music Awards. She is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music in New York and performed in Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln, Centre, Carnegie Hall, Merkin Halls, garnering superlatives from the New York Times, “an extraordinary talent with phenomenal ability….dazzling virtuosity”
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