{"id":2296122,"date":"2026-02-23T20:19:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2296122"},"modified":"2026-02-23T20:19:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:19:51","slug":"legendary-canadian-musicians-share-archival-conversations-in-new-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/legendary-canadian-musicians-share-archival-conversations-in-new-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Canadian musicians share archival conversations in new podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A new podcast is giving Canadian classical music fans new insight into one of the country\u2019s most\u00a0revered\u00a0operatic voices.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Louis\u00a0Quilico<\/strong>\u00a0was one of the\u00a020th\u00a0century\u2019s leading baritones, sharing performances all over the world and garnering great acclaim for his portrayals of the characters of Giuseppe Verdi, in particular. His\u00a0partner, the\u00a0celebrated pianist Christina Petrowska\u00a0Quilico<\/strong>,\u00a0is now sharing\u00a0new insights into her\u00a0husband\u2019s life and career\u00a0through archival recordings of conversations the couple had before Louis\u2019s passing in 2000. Those recordings are being turned into a 23-part podcast entitled Opera Stories: Speaking Personally<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were collaborating on a book,\u201d Petrowska\u00a0Quilico\u00a0shares about how the conversations were first made. \u201cWe did\u00a0maybe two\u00a0weeks of conversations, just asking questions that popped into my head at a time. This way, there were conversations in his words and exactly what he wanted to say about music.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Petrowska\u00a0Quilico\u00a0adds that because the conversations were between a husband and wife, the podcast reads less as a biography and more as an unfiltered window into their careers with the trust that can only come from partners. \u201cThere was no fakery about it,\u201d she says, adding that\u00a0there was no concept of sharing recordings through something like a podcast since the medium did not yet exist. \u201cWe\u00a0weren\u2019t\u00a0putting out any kind of mood or whatever. We were just talking.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Over the course of these conversations, the couple revisits famous performances in places like San Francisco and New York City and speak about music through their own artistic lenses, each very distinct from the other. Petrowska\u00a0Quilico\u00a0made her name on the keyboards with interpretations of contemporary classical compositions from composers like Ann Southam while her husband\u2019s career was defined by performances of characters in the operatic canon.\u00a0Despite these differences, they each remained appreciative and supportive of each other\u2019s work and inspired each other along the way.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was doing the Liszt transcriptions \u2013 there were Rigoletto <\/em>and Lucia [di Lammermoor] <\/em>and I did some others \u2013 we as pianists tend to think of the fast notes and everything,\u201d Petrowska\u00a0Quilico\u00a0recalls, \u201cand he said, \u2018It\u2019s too fast.\u2019 I said, \u2018No,\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0got to be. Every pianist plays it like this,\u2019… and he said, \u2018No, breathe, breathe, feel the phrase,\u2019 so that was wonderful. And with the contemporary music, he was such a good supporter. I know he\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0like much contemporary music, but he found things in it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n