Robert Baldwin
This year marks the 200th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi’s birth, yet so far this season the occasion has been hardly noted by most of the local performing arts groups.
The Salt Lake Symphony, however, will celebrate the great Italian composer’s bicentennial this Saturday by devoting an entire program to his music.
Michael Huff
Joined by Utah Voices and soprano Melissa Heath, the concert will present some of Verdi’s best known works, including vocal and instrumental selections from La forza del destino, Il Trovatore, Aïda and Nabucco, as well as the Four Sacred Pieces.
The concert, in Libby Gardner Concert Hall, will be co-conducted by the Salt Lake Symphony’s Robert Baldwin and Utah Voices’ Michael Huff. Start time is 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 for general and $5 for seniors and students and available at the door or by calling 801-792-1313 or online at www.utahvoices.org.