Watch musicians play an eerie concert to a theater full of plants

Rows brimmed with a diversity of 2,292 potted plants as musicians took the stage at Spain's ornate Gran Teatre del Liceu on Monday. A string quartet performed the operatic piece "Crisantemi" by Italian composer Giacomo Puccini, as cameras panned through the rapt, herbaceous audience. (After a recording asks the verdant attendees to "kindly switch off your mobile phones," human performers come on stage at 1:20.) The Liceu had been closed since mid-March, when Spain locked down the nation to curb the spread of the new coronavirus — a pathogen that's substantially more deadly than the flu and can severely sicken young people, too. A vaccine likely won't be available until, at best, sometime in 2021. Read more...More about Music, Health, Coronavirus, Science, and Health