Gino Quilico

Gino Quilico has collaborated with Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, George Prêtre, Lorin Maazel, Giuseppe Patané, Anton Coppola, Zubin Mehta, Kent Nagano, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

Highlights include his participation in the 1991 world premiere of John Corigliano’s opera The Ghosts of Versailles, presented at Metropolitan Opera on the occasion of the institution’s centennial. In 1987, he made history by sharing the Met stage with his father, the great baritone Louis Quilico, in a production of Massenet’s Manon. This unique moment was repeated in 1989 and 1990 in The Barber of Seville.

Discography includes more than forty recordings. In 1995 he received a Grammy Award for his performance in Berlioz’s Les Troyens with Montreal Symphony Orchestra. In 2003 his album Noël earned a gold record.

In 1983 Mr. Quilico had the honor of singing before Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre during the ratification of Canada’s new Constitution. In 1986 he gave a private recital for Prince Charles and Princess Diana at the residence of the Canadian Ambassador in London, the Honorable R. Roy McMurtry.