This October 14, 2007, the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala will be at the World Financial Center in NYC's Lower Manhattan, where they will play Verdi's Requiem overlooking Ground Zero. The event has been commissioned in the name of remembrance for the roughly 2300 victims of 9/11.
It began as architect Daniel Liebeskind's idea, and Milan mayor Letizia Moratti and the La Scala management immediately agreed.
The La Scala chorus had already appeared at Ground Zero (well, literally on the edge of it) in the Summer of 2002, when the chorus conducted by Riccardo Muti sang Va' Pensiero in memory of the victims.