There are already some scientific studies on the effect of music on plants. However, this greenery sound was all about art. In the hall of the Opera House in BarcelonaThe musicians of the UceLi string quartet played in front of 2,292 potted plants at the end of June. It was the first concert after the Corona emergency in Spain and was also streamed on the Internet. Puccini's "Crisantemi" was played, what else.
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The drive-in cinema celebrated a comeback with the Corona crisis. Also in front of the airship hangarIn Essen-Mülheim, people can safely enjoy the cinema and popcorn.
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Another Corona invention: the picnic ceiling concert. Here with the Swiss pop singer Beatrice Egli and a Thuringian audience.
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Please take a seat: Hamburg's Senator for Culture Carsten Brosda opens the International Summer Festival at Kampnagel in the Hanseatic city.
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A "transnational meeting and action space for migrants , Hamburg residents and globetrotters" also makes sense in times of social distancing. Maybe even more than ever. The room can be visited as part of the Kapnagel summer festival in Hamburg.
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There is also a celebration at the other end of the world, for example in India. The country has now registered more than three million Covid-19 cases. The Ganesh Chaturthi festival, which lasts several days, is celebrated anyway, or maybe because of it. Because Ganesha's special day is a social holiday where people wish each other good luck.
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If not all people are allowed to go to the theater at the same time, then they have to go one after the other, in small corona-friendly groups. It is made possible by the light labyrinth of the ANU theater for the play "The Great Journey" on the Tempelhofer Feld. The game is played in nine rounds. 50 people at a time can hike the course every 15 minutes. 3,500 candles light the way to the eight stations.
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Finally a clear view: cinema-goers in the Cineteca Nacional in Mexico City. Although the government allows cinema operations again, many movie theaters in the South American country remain closed. The requirement that only a third of the seats be occupied makes many cinemas unprofitable.
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Since Corona there are no longer boxes only in theaters and opera houses. In Cologne's Lanxess Arena, plexiglass cabins protect visitors from everything that could fly through the air besides the sound waves of the singer Wincent Weiss.
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The opera performance "Sun & Sea" was awarded the Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale in 2019 and is still worth seeing in 2020. Here spectators at the Zurich Theater Spectacle follow the sandy goings-on - with a mask, of course.
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This is how the new Gangnam style works: Models present dresses in the Gangnam district of Seoul.
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Fortunately, we all just need mouth and nose protection at the moment. With earmuffs on, the Montevideo Philharmonic Band's performance in Uruguay's capital Montevideo would be half as nice.
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The open-air theater in St. Albans, UK, also offers plenty of space. The program of the Maltings Open Air Theater Festival included Shakespeare classics, Sherlock Holmes and a day disco.
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Is that street art already? A note for the concert-goers by Johannes Oerding on the open air stage in Hamburg's city park.
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In the 100th year of the Salzburg Festival, of all things, everything has to be different than before. The Austrians and foreign visitors make the best of it. After all, "Jedermann" was listed. Would be even nicer.
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Smooching is not over two chairs, but there is still room for romance: the hands of two spectators touch each other during a concert by the Spanish opera tenor Placido Domingo in the royal palace of Caserta, Italy.
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"No Mask No Party": A clear message for the visitors of the alternative music festival Wilde Möhre in Brandenburg. This year with a scaled-down program, spread over five weekends. Instead of the usual 8,000 people, only 900 were allowed to have a ticket. Nevertheless, there were again numerous concerts, workshops, art performances, lectures and workshops on sustainable living.
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Applause, the performance is over: both at the La Fabrica del Vesu music festival in Oviedo, northern Spain, and at this point.
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