Opera house performs first concert since coronavirus lockdown to thousands of plants

By Zach Halaschak

Published June 23, 2020 9:02pm ET

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Opera house performs first concert since coronavirus lockdown to thousands of plants — Musicians rehearse at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, June 22, 2020. 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. It will be on 22 June, broadcast live online, when the UceLi Quartet string quartet performs Puccini's "Crisantemi" for this verdant public, brought in from local nurseries. | (EMILIO MORENATTI/AP)

Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu had a very green return following Spain’s coronavirus lockdown.

Instead of playing to a concert hall packed full of people, the UceLi Quartet played to a crowd of 2,292 plants in the opera house. The quartet’s Monday night performance, which was also livestreamed to a human audience, marked the first since the opera house was shuttered during the coronavirus pandemic.

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