How the plants might look.
Attendees of the first post-lockdown concert at Barcelona’s Liceu opera house next week will not need masks or gloves, nor will they be required to observe physical distancing.
But they might like to take along a nice comfy pot and a little water to prevent their roots from drying out as a string quartet serenades them, fittingly, with Puccini’s Crisantemi (Chrysanthemums).
Well aware of the need to return with a spectacle as grabby as a venus flytrap, the Catalan venue has announced a concert for 2,292 plants when it reopens next Monday. Non-vegetable music fans will also be able to enjoy the performance as it will be livestreamed.
According to the Liceu’s artistic director, Víctor García de Gomar, the Concert for the Biocene is intended to help us ponder the current state of the human condition and how, in lockdown, we have become “an audience deprived of the possibility of being an audience”.
Rest of the article here:https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/17/spanish-opera-house-reopens-with-concert-for-plants-barcelona?fbclid=IwAR1_f2uJv28ic_EveCxlE5BK1gfJZpBeRIHYw_fFmTuvcrmUq0DLLg--dmw
