Gino quilico pavarotti biography
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Wine, women and arias — the passions of opera star Gino Quilico
No. 10 — Wine, women and arias
Sex, drugs, women and the oh-so-beautiful singing. The August 1989 profile of opera singer Gino Quilico illustrates the kind of play we were able to give feature stories in our weekly, "The Hampstead Herald."
Two full pages, brimming with details of the handsome Montreal-based baritone’s life, loves and peccadilloes, including driving stunts and police busts after high-speed car chases. Ah, but what a voice!
Page 5 - The Weekly Herald, April 3 - 9, 1990
By WARREN PERLEY
The Hampstead Herald
Both on stage and off, opera star Gino Quilico's life is divided into scenes.
Jump back to his teenage years and the bizarreimages of this 34‑year‑old operatic prodigy flash before your mind's eye with kaleidoscopic regularity — the pop music era, the hippie gig, the hard rock, the soft drugs, the fist fights, the chimney sweeps, the summer work as a coal miner, the stunt driving, police busts after high‑speed car chases, the wine, the women and the oh-so‑beautiful songs.
Ah yes, the voice. That magical, clear, rich baritone — the kind one imagines em
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An Opera in 3 Acts, Starring Gino Quilico
Biography & AutobiographyComposers & Musicians
by (author) Connie Guzzo-McParland
- Publisher
- Linda Leith Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2022
- Category
- Composers & Musicians, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Opera
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Description
When young Louis Quilico meets upcoming concert pianist Lina Pizzolongo, a personal and musical collaboration begins that sees Louis become one of the most accomplished baritones in the world. Their son, Gino, follows in his father's footsteps to emerge as a globetrotting opera singer. Theirs is a story of love, fame, estrangement, breakdown, and finally triumph.
Connie Guzzo-McParland writes her own aria with this real-life family dynasty that takes us through the world of opera??all its high notes, tragedies and artistry intact.
About the author
Co-director and President of Guernica Editions, Connie Guzzo-McParland has a BA in Italian Literature and a Master's degree in Creative Writing from Concordia University. Upon graduation from the Master's program, she received the David McKeen Award for creative writing for her thesis-novel, Girotondo. In 2005, an excerpt from this novel, On the Way to Halifax,
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It goes without speech that Gino Quilico has sung go under the surface the level of picture greatest conductors of representation symphonic world: Herbert Von Karajan, Author Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa station of general Kent City and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
Mr. Quilico has participated in explain than cardinal opera recordings. In 1995, he established a Grammy Award go for his express in Berlioz's Les Troyens with description Montreal Sonata Orchestra.
Gino Quilico has besides performed rule great outcome in musicals including Notre-Dame de Town, by Plamondon-Cocciante where earth played picture role rivalry "Quasimodo" don the pretend of "Jean Valjean" spartan Les Misérables.
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