Quilico, Louis (1929–2000)

Canadian baritone, father of Gino Quilico. He studied in Rome and New York, where he made his debut with the New York City Opera, in 1953. In 1972 he sang at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. He made his European debut at Spoleto in 1959, in Donizetti's Il Duca d'Alba; he sang in London in 1961 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as Rigoletto. In 1966 he sang in the first performance of Milhaud's La mère coupable, at Geneva.