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Barcelona Opera House Opens With a Concert for an Audience of 2,292 Plants By Jessica Stewart on June 24, 2020 Barcelona's opera house has celebrated its reopening to the public since the coronavirus pandemic put the world at a standstill, but their opening night had an unusual audience. (Reporting by Luis Felipe Castilleja and Joan Faus; Writing by Clara-Laeila Laudette and Joan Faus; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne and Gareth Jones)The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in BarcelonaBarcelona F2: Drugovich reigns supreme in sprint raceRacing Point "not surprised" by strong Perez F1 returnGelael to miss Barcelona sprint race after fracturing spineRumour Has It: Man City target Messi amid Barcelona chaosRobert Trump, the president’s younger brother, dead at 71Fans think Miley Cyrus' new song is about Liam HemsworthBarack Obama reportedly said: 'Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f... things up'Halle Berry Just Posted A No-Pants Skateboarding Photo To Celebrate Her B-DayCouple postpones wedding, gets surprise gift from stranger they accidentally emailedDelaware thrust into unlikely starring role in 2020 presidential campaign‘Have you ever said the C-word in a church?’: Love letters from comedians to comedy clubsPHOTOS: John Lewis – congressman and civil rights activist – a life of extraordinary serviceBo Derek reflects on her famous cornrows and Donald Trump: 'I don’t need my president to be my moral leader'NBA, Yale land the COVID testing breakthrough the NFL (and the general U.S. public) has been hoping forWhere does Kamala Harris’s toughness come from?
By Luis Felipe Castilleja. The Gran Teatre del Liceu reopens its doors, in which the 2,292 seats of the auditorium will be occupied on this occasion by plants. Chat with us in Facebook Messenger.
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Barcelona's Liceu opera house reopened its doors on Monday for the first time in over three months to hold a concert - exclusively for a quiet, leafy audience of nearly 2,300 house plants, Let's begin with art and music, in a great theatre, by inviting nature in," he said inside the eclectic, neo-classical venue that dates back to the 19th century and is one of Europe's largest opera houses.After the concert, which was live streamed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70bpxG2tq6w&feature=youtu.be, the 2,292 nursery plants placed on every seat were to be donated to frontline health workers.The "Concert for the Biocene" was made possible by the ending of Spain's state of emergency on Sunday. BARCELONA (Reuters) - Barcelona's Liceu opera house reopened its doors on Monday for the first time in over three months to hold a concert - exclusively for a quiet, leafy audience of nearly 2,300 house plants,Organisers said the intention was to reflect on the absurdity of the human condition in the era of the coronavirus, which deprives people of their position as spectators. "Nature advanced to occupy the spaces we snatched from it," executive producer Eugenio Ampudio said on stage at an afternoon rehearsal before the concert. To mark Spain's lifting of lockdown restrictions, an opera house in Barcelona reopened with a performance in front of an audience of 2,292 potted plants. The two indomitable women who raised her.Gunmen kill son of legendary Mexican drug capo Amado CarrilloAsh Christian, Filmmaker and Emmy-Winning Producer, Dead at 35Kylie Jenner Hit the Beach in a Skimpy Pink Bikini for Her 23rd Birthday VacationKelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos admit that they parent their daughter Lola differently than their 2 sons Musicians rehearse at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, June 22, 2020. Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu opera house reopened and performed its first concert since the coronavirus lockdown to a live audience: a room full of plants.