Though the performance at Chicago’s Symphony Center is sold out, audiences around the globe can get a ‘free seat’ to Verdi’s 200th Birthday celebration. The event will take place on the evening of Thursday, October 10, 2013 – 200 years to the day that Verdi was born. CSO Music Director Riccardo Muti will lead the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a performance of Verdi’s Requiem Mass. Pencil the date, we will publish more I formation a week ahead of the concert.