1983 - Mr. Quilico performed for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in Ottawa at the NationalArts Center for the new Constitution of Canada.

1986 - Mr. Quilico was invited to sing, in private audience, for Prince Charles and PrincessDiana at the Canadian Ambassador’s residence the honorable R. Roy McMurtry in London,England.

1988 - Artist of the Year by le Conseil Canadien de la Musique1990 - Goodwill Ambassador (U.N.H.C.R) United Nations.1993 - Officier of The Ordre du Canada

1992 - Grammy Award (Les Troyen, Decca)

2003 - GOLD Record (Noel)World Premieres:

World Premieres of “L’Heritiere” at the Paris Opera.

World Premiere “Monsegur” in Toulouse, subsequently in Bordeaux, Lyon and the Paris Opera,where the production was telecast and recorded.

World premiere of John Corigliano’s “Ghost’s of Versaille” as the infamous Figaro at TheMetropolitan Opera.

Cinematography:

Mr. Quilico has appeared in the feature films of “La Boheme”Feature film “Orfeo”

Video’s include; (L’Heure Espagnole), (La Boheme), (Carmen), (Cenerentola) (Barbiere diSiviglia), numerous operatic videos.

Twenty seven classical recordings with :Deutsche Grammophon, Philips, Sony Classical, London/Decca & EMI/Angel.

Master Classes :San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, Toronto, Montréal, Paris and Munich.

Esteemed as an interpreter of the French and Italian repertoire, lyric baritone Gino Quilico appears regularly with theworld’s major opera companies, including the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, theVienna State Opera, the Paris Opera and the Bayerische Staatsoper. Over twenty opera recordings, including a GrammyAward for his participation in the recording of Les Troyens (Decca). His critically acclaimed solo recital recording LeSecret (Koch International) have also firmly established Mr. Quilico in the classical recording industry. His recentrecording “Noel” with Novem Inc. went Gold.

Mr. Quilico has worked with such distinguished conductors as Seiji Ozawa, Herbert Von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein,Riccardo Chailly, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Michel Plasson, George Pretre and kent Nagano.

Among the many festivals in which he has participated are those of Saltzburg, Edinburgh, Schwetzingen, Aix enProvence and Orange.

Mr. Quilico made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1987 as Lescaut in “Manon” and has regularly returned since inroles such as Figaro in “The Barber of Seville”, Valentin in “Faust”, Enrico in “Lucia di Lammermoor”, Ford in“Falstaff” , Belcore in “L’Elisir d’Amore” and Escamillo in “Carmen”.

At the San Francisco Opera, Mr. Quilico has appeared in the title role of “Don Giovanni”, Yeletsky in “Pique Dame”,Belcore in “Elisir d’Amore”, Lescaut in “Manon” Silvio in “Pagliacci” and Marcello in “La Boheme” which was alsorecorded for video release.

At the Paris Opera Mr. Quilico’s roles have included Figaro in “The Barber of Seville”, Oreste in “Iphigenie enTauride”, Eisenstein in “Die Fledermaus”, Belcore in “Elisir d’Amore”, Enrico in “Lucia di Lamermoor”, Escamillo in“Carmen” and Yeletsky in “Pique Dame.

Roles at La Scala di Milano have included Marcello in “La Boheme”. Lescaut in “Manon’’ by Massenet and Lescaut in“Manon Lescaut” by Puccini which was recorded by Sony Classical.

With the Royal Opera House in London, he has sung Marquis de Posa in “Don Carlos”, as well as Valentin in “Faust”,Figaro, Marcello and Escamillo which he has also performed with the Royal Opera’s tour to Japan and Korea.

Around the world other engagements have taken Mr. Quilico to the Berlin Staatsoper, the Vienna Staatsoper for“Iphigenie en Tauride” to Munich for “Carmen and Don Giovanni” to the Florence Maggio Musicale for “LaCenerentola”. “Don Pasquale” at La Fenice in Venice, and to Buenos Aires Teatro Colon for “Don Giovanni” and Faust.Lausanne for the title role of “Eugene Onegin” and as Renato in “Un Ballo in Maschera”.

On the concert stage, Mr. Quilico has appeared with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal SymphonyOrchestra and The Chicago symphony Orchestra. In Europe he has sung with the Orchestre National de France, theOrchestre Philarmonic de Radio France, and the Bayerische Rundfunk, The Vienna Philarmonic and The BerlinPhilarmonic.

In the year 1987 Gino and Louis Quilico became the first father and son to perform at the Metropolitan Opera togetherin its existence. Followed by many other appearances together around the world at the Paris Opera, TheChatelet, The Canadian Opera Company and The Toulouse Opera.

Mr. Quilico has appeared in the feature films of “La Boheme” and “Orfeo” as well as in numerous operaticvideos. He has recorded for such labels as Deutsche Grammophon, EMI/Angel, Philips, Erato, Sony Classicaland London/Decca. included an album of operetta duets with Barbara Hendricks for EMI.