Quilico

Canadian baritone Louis Quilico was an opera singer who sang with most of the important operatic companies in Europe and North America during his 46-year career.

He was born in 1925 in Montreal, where his father owned the city’s first bicycle shop> Quilico made his stage debut there at age 29 in a production of Boris Godunov by Modeste Mussorgsky.

From there, Quilico quickly rose to stardom winning numerous awards such as the prestigious Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air and the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award.

During his career, he appeared regularly at The Vienna Staatsoper, Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires, Teatro Massimo of Palermo, Thermes of Caracan, and at the operas of Venice, Turin and Florence.

At home, he appeared regularly with the Canadian Opera Company and with the Opera du Quebec.

Quilter

Roger Quilter, an English composer, lived from 1877 until 1953 and was a fellow-student of Percy Grainger, Cyril Scott and Balfour Gardner at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. His reputation in England rests largely on his songs and on his light music for orchestra, such as his Children’s Overture, with its interwoven nursery rhyme tunes.