Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu opera house reopened on Monday with a performance – its first since the easing of the coronavirus lockdown measures – to a unique audience of plants.
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Un concert per a les 2.292 plantes que han conquistat l’interior del Gran Teatre del Liceu 😍🌱🌿 El coliseu reobre les portes al regne vegetal amb una actuació sense precedents!
Seguiu un concert per a 40 espècies (cap d’humana): https://t.co/i8twCTxuY3 pic.twitter.com/EJbYqyJJun
— Time Out Barcelona (@TimeOutBCN) June 22, 2020
Seated in the plush red seats of the stalls, the dress circle and the boxes were an eye-catching array of 2,292 ficus trees, palms and Swiss cheese plants, their verdant green contrasting with the ornate gold columns and moldings of the auditorium.
On the stage, which has stood empty since mid-March, a string quartet played the beautiful lilting melodies of Puccini’s Crisantemi – or The Chrysanthemums.
The idea of the concert came to conceptual artist Eugenio Ampudia during the lockdown when the normal bustle of urban living was silenced, the sound of birdsong was much clearer and the plants around his house grew more vigorously.
The idea was to have people reflect on the concept of sustainability and their relationship with nature.
“I thought why don’t we go into the Liceu like weeds, take it over and let nature start growing everywhere and turn it into something alive even when there are no people,” he told reporters.
It was like “a visual poem, both a subtle metaphor but one which makes us smile,” said the Liceu’s artistic director Victor Garcia de Gomar.
The concert was streamed live on the theatre’s website so those who wanted to could put it on for their own plants at home to hear. After the concert, all the plants were to be donated to healthcare professionals who have worked on the frontline fighting the virus over the past few months.
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