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BIOGRAPHY |
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Early Career Louis Quilico was born in Montréal, Canada on January 14, 1925 to an Italian-born father and French-Canadian mother. He spent his formative years in the city, where his father owned a popular bicycle shop. While a student, he won a prize to study with Teresa Pediconi and the famous baritone Riccardo Stracciari at the Conservatoire Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy. From 1947 to 1952, he worked with Martial Singher, first at the Conservatoire de Montréal and later at Mannes College of Music in New York City. With the help of a scholarship, he was able to continue his studies with Singher (and others) from 1952 to 1955. In 1953, Quilico won first prize in the radio competition, Nos
Futures Etoiles. Two year later, he won the prestigious Metropolitan
Opera "Auditions of the Air". That same year, he made
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