HOLIDAY CHEER

Saturday, December 7, 2024, 7:30 pm
Sunday, December 8, 2024, 2:00 pm
Natalie Cordone, soprano
Cedric Berry, bass-baritone
Northern California Children’s Chorus

Brilliant vocalists and adorable young talents join the festivities for a program packed with goodies—It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year, O Holy Night, music from The NutcrackerFrozenHome Alone, and many more!

From Off-Broadway to first class Performing Arts Centers, Natalie Cordone has played to packed houses around the world.  Equally comfortable in front of a sweeping orchestra, a big band or in an intimate cabaret venue, she has had the pleasure of connecting with audiences  in all kinds of settings. From opera to musical theatre, film to commercials, and concerts to corporate events, Natalie has traveled the globe entertaining and inspiring audiences. 

In 2017, Ms. Cordone won Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her portrayal in Some Enchanted Evening. She has also headlined with The Colorado Symphony, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, The Greensboro Symphony and the  Orlando Philharmonic Orchestras; starred in Rhapsody & Rhythm: The Gershwin Concert ExperienceThe Gershwin Big Band Experience (producer, Todd Gershwin); and The Start of Something Big: The Music of Steve & Eydie.

Cedric Berry wields “a bass-baritone of considerable power and agility” (The Chicago Tribune), projecting “machismo and a voice of fabulous mettle to the theatre’s last row….tossing off difficult passagework and deploying dazzling thunderbolts of sound at the top of the range” (Voix des Arts).

Roles include the title role in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Mephistopheles in Gounod’s Faust, Lepporello in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and Shaunard in Puccini’s La Boheme.

Companies include Los Angeles Opera, The Industry Opera, Long Beach Opera, Savonlinna Opera Festival of Finnland, Banlieurs Bleues Festival of France and the Ravinia Music Festival, to name a few. He has appeared with Pacific Symphony, Arizona Symphony, Santa Fe Symphony, Santa Barbara Symphony, Pasadena Pops Orchestra, California Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Telemann Chamber Orchestra of Japan. He also won first place in the Metropolitan Opera Western Region Competition.

Natalie Cordone
Cedric Berry