The Verdi Chorus Fall 2024 Concert: We Are Verdi Bizet Tickets

The Verdi Chorus kicks off its 41st season with its Fall 2024 Concert We Are Verdi Bizet for two performances only at the First Presbyterian Church in Santa Monica on November 16 and 17, 2024. Led by Anne Marie Ketchum, who is celebrating forty-one consecutive years as Artistic Director of the organization, the Verdi Chorus is the only choral group in Southern California that focuses primarily on the dramatic and diverse music for opera chorus. The program will feature selections from three Verdi operas – I Lombardi, Don Carlo and Rigoletto and Bizet’s Carmen and The Pearl Fishers.

The program will also feature four guest soloists: critically acclaimed soprano Shana Blake Hill, award -winning mezzo soprano Audrey Babcock, tenor Todd Wilander, praised by The New York Times for his “brave, vocally assured portrayals” and who has returned for over nine seasons thus far with The Metropolitan Opera; and critically praised dramatic baritone Malcolm MacKenzie, who has been heard at leading opera houses throughout the U.S. and Europe.