Forget about toting around reusable water bottles at a festival to go green, just have the patrons be houseplants instead, just as the Barcelona Opera House has done.
There’s been a few hot topics in the news lately: coronavirus pushing concerts to a stand still and how concerts can become more green on their return. Well, Barcelona Opera House has the perfect solution.
Why bother hosting messy, loud, and sometimes violent patrons when you could play to some nice, quiet, and quite pretty houseplants instead?
As CNN reports, Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu reopened for one of the first concerts in Spain following coronavirus, taking a bit of a greener approach: playing to 2,292 houseplants.
Creating the event, artist Eugenio Ampudia featured aptly chosen music played by the UceLi strng quartet. Puccini’s ‘Cristantemi’, meaning Chrysanthemum, graced the ears of the audience of plants, that call a nearby plant nursery their home.
From ferns and trees, to grasses and different houseplants, not a seat was left empty as both the orchestral section, and upper mezzanine and balconies were filled with the lovely greenery.
Considering that numerous studies have noted that music can accelerate plant growth, promoting faster and healthier growth for the houseplants, and that they even prefer classical music as opposed to rock, the houseplants were more than appreciative, even giving an applause at the end of the song.
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Of course, this applause was assisted by a combination of mechanics and fans where the plants blew their branches while a speaker of blowing leaves and clattering sticks played.
Following the concert, each of the houseplants were donated to frontline workers at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona.
With Spain playing host to over 247,000 coronavirus cases, the opera house released a statement that following this “strange, painful period,” the concert organisers wanted to offer “a different perspective for our return to activity, a perspective that brings us closer to something as essential as our relationship with nature.”
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