The Verdi Requiem is a regular feature at the Proms, having appeared every few years in past decades, usually to full houses.
Author: Gary Hoffman
Prom 51 ó St. John Passion
Sunday 24th August at the Proms promised a day dedicated to the music of Bach, beginning with an organ recital in the afternoon by Simon Preston and ending with a late-night performance of the first three of the six Cello Suites by Chinese cellist Jian Wang by way of a palate-cleanser.
Let’s Go, Verdi! A Change-Up At Nats Park
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/14/AR2008091402042.html
An Opera of an Epic, Composed in Stages
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/arts/music/15xena.html?ref=arts
Philip Glass: Confessions of a chameleon
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/philip-glass-confessions-of-a-chameleon-926532.html
Expanding audiences and ambitions
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/arts/chi-harris-classical-0914sep14,0,840679.story
Turandot, Hampstead Theatre, London
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/af0c7afe-8020-11dd-99a9-000077b07658.html