MONEY MATTERS

Verdi Finale: Verdi, the Santa Monica restaurant where many young opera singers polished their craft, will close after Sunday night’s performance. Another artistic victim of the sagging economy, the restaurant featured performers such as Mic Bell, Suzanne Guzman, Anne-Marie Ketchum, Greg Fedderly, Michael Gallup, Stephanie Vlahos and John Atkins. “Our plan is to be available for private parties until conditions improve,” said Sheila Segal, who with her husband Bernard Segal took over a former funeral parlor in March, 1982.