Louis Quilico’s sudden death in July 2000, in Toronto, Canada, marked the end of an exceptional career. He had performed at least 80 major baritone roles in 40 operas in most of the world’s great opera houses, including Covent Garden, the Paris Opera, Rome Opera, Bolshoi and the Vienna Statsoper. Over 300 performances alone took place over 25 years at the Metropolitan Opera, where he sang with tenors Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Jon Vickers and José Carreras, and sopranos Joan Sutherland, Renata Tebaldi, Mirella Frena, Leontyne Price and Monserrat Caballé, Beverly Sills, among others; and such leading and such conductors as Zubin Mehta, Richard Bonyng, James Levine and Claudio Abbado. After his retirement from the Metropolitan Opera, he continued to perform and record most often with his wife, the celebrated concert pianist, Christina Petrowska Quilico, C.M., O.Ont, FRSC. The couple toured extensively in duo recitals, recorded four CDs, and collaborated on a teaching video and two books Mr. Rigoletto: In Conversation with Louis Quilico and Opera Illustrated: An Artistic Odyssey.