(Credit: The Verdi Chorus)

The Verdi Chorus is set to present its first online concert on April 18, 2020 when it streams its 2018 showcase “The Force of Destiny.”

The performance, which featured sequences from such operas as “La Forza del Destino,” “La Traviata,” “Nabucco,” and “Die Fledermaus,” will be streamed on the company’s Facebook page.

That concert featured four soloists including soprano Shana Blake Hill, mezzo-soprano Karin Mushegain, tenor Alex Boyer, and baritone Ben Lowe.

“During this painful time of uncertainty and social distancing, we have all been even more aware of the need to experience beautiful and meaningful music together.  Personally, I have truly missed our Monday evening ’music therapy sessions’ (as Fox Singer Megan McDonald put it),” stated

Founding Artistic Director Anne Marie Ketchum in a press statement. “Rehearsing each week with all those wonderfully different personalities to find the essence and humanity of a piece of music by Verdi or Mascagni always puts the world in perspective for me. And now the importance of music in all of our lives is even more obvious. It is in this spirit that we present a streaming of our Spring 2018 concert, ‘The Force of Destiny.’ In order to continue our tradition of sharing great operatic music with you, our audience, this concert will be presented online on the exact weekend our Spring 2020 concert in Santa Monica was to have taken place.”