After closing for several months because of the coronavirus, Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu finally reopened on June 22 with UceLi string quartet playing Puccini’s “Crisantemi”.
The audience of 2,292 was very attentive. All were green plants. (Be sure to watch and listen till the very end.)
Trebbe is the author of The World Is a Waiting Lover and 101 Ways to Make Guerrilla Beauty. Her new book, Radical Joy for Hard Times: Finding Meaning and Making Beauty, will be published in Fall 2018 by North Atlantic Books. Her articles about people’s emotional and spiritual relationship with nature have appeared in Orion, Sierra, Ecopsychology, The Ecologist, The Nation, Harper’s and other magazines. She lives with her husband, Andrew Gardner, in rural northeastern Pennsylvania, a region currently under exploitation by natural gas companies.
Image Credit:
- Barcelona: Emilio Morenatti/AP
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