Barcelona Celebrated The End Of Lockdown With A Concert For Plants

The world has changed a lot in the past couple of months. We’ve all experienced it in one way or another. Some countries went into complete lockdown, others had quarantine in varying degrees of strictness. But we’re all pretty used to the idea that the world is different now and large gatherings won’t be a thing for a while. But Barcelona’s The Gran Teatre del Liceu found a way to celebrate the end of lockdown in a unique way that shows their determination to get their life back on track and art is clearly the way.

The lockdown in Spain has been lifted this Sunday and in celebration Barcelona’s Opera had a concert to show that art is still of value, even if people can’t gather together to appreciate it in the same way we did in a pre-pandemic world. A string quartet played Giacomo Puccini’s “Crisantemi” to an audience of 2292 plants.

The mastermind behind the idea was Eugenio Ampudia, the artistic director of the opera house. He says he feels like since the lockdown he’s felt more intune with nature and has been able to appreciate it and it’s beauty way more. It felt like the birds were singing more, the plants were growing faster, or maybe it’s just because we all slowed down enough to notice it.