BARCELONA – Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu opera house reopened Monday and performed its first concert since the coronavirus lockdown — to an audience that didn’t have to worry about social distancing.Instead of people, the UceLi Quartet played Giacomo Puccini’s I Crisantemi (Chrysanthemums) for 2,292 plants, one for each seat in the theater.
The concert was also livestreamed for humans to watch.The event was conceived by Spanish artist Eugenio Ampudia who said he was inspired by nature during the pandemic.“I heard many more birds singing.
And the plants in my garden and outside growing faster. And, without a doubt, I thought that maybe I could now relate in a much intimate way with people and nature,” he said before the performance.At.