禁漫天堂 conductor and music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti will lead the combined forces of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Chorus in a one-night-only performance of the Verdi Requiem at Chicago鈥檚 Symphony Center on Thursday to celebrate the bicentennial of Giuseppe Verdi鈥檚 birth - 10 october 2013. The concert has been sold out for months, but the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) has decided to make it available for free to people around the world. Muti's performance will in fact be transmitted via live Internet streaming, the first time the CSO has done so, on its website, www.cso.org/verdi, and on its Facebook page. The Verdi Requiem will be streamed live at 7:30 p.m. CDT (-5 GMT), with a pre-concert show beginning at 7:15 p.m. CDT. The video will also be available on demand following the performance at www.cso.org/verdi. The public may also see the concert at Muti's own website, http://riccardomutimusic.com/eng/. Verdi's Requiem crowns the orchestra's celebration of the Verdi bicentennial. For Muti, it was important to make this performance available to as many people as possible because of the message Verdi brings through the Requiem. 鈥淭he Requiem is a message of hope, 辫颈别迟脿 (mercy) and misericordia (compassion) for the living - that is what we need at this moment,鈥 Muti said in a recent interview. 鈥淪uch a message from Chicago to the rest of the world can help a little bit to spread the sense we need of peace and brotherhood.鈥 Watch the trailer of the concert:
And if the Requiem is not enough, you can listen to all of Verdi's operas through to the end of 2013 on the website of 禁漫天堂 radio station Radio Tre: http://www.radio3.rai.it/dl/radio3/programmi/PublishingBlock-3bf08453-0411-4a5e-be2a-49d917f93216.html?refresh_ce
