Spanish opera house to reopen with a performance for plants as audience

Barcelona’s Liceu opera house will be opening next week to perform a concert. But there is a catch! They will be performing to an audience of plants. This means the attendees will not have to maintain any social distance, and there will be no concerns for their safety measures.
This has happened as performing in front of a full audience is likely to be a risky affair in this time of the Coronavirus crisis. This is why the opera house announced that they will play host to around 2292 plants, once it reopens next week. The interested humans can catch the concert live as it will be livestreamed on YouTube.

Referring to this, Liceu’s artistic director Víctor García de Gomar said that the concert is intended to help us muse over the current state of human condition, and how we have become an audience deprived of the possibility of being an audience in lockdown.
Eugenio Ampudia, who is the conceptual artist behind the concert, mentioned how this aims for showing and reflecting what has happened across Spain and around the world in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has pushed people to retreat from shared public areas. He added, “At a time when an important part of humankind has shut itself up in enclosed spaces and been obliged to relinquish movement, nature has crept forward to occupy the spaces we have ceded.”
The artist reiterated how nature has done so at its own rhythm, and if we can broaden our empathy and bring it to bear on other species. He aims to do it by using art and music, and by inviting nature into a great concert hall.

Reportedly, the concert will happen on June 22; once it gets over, the plants will be donated to 2292 health workers, as a gesture of thanks for their continuous fight against the deadly virus.