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WIN R500 | This opera house just reopened to an audience of plants — but where in the world is it?

Barcelona's opera house celebrated its post-corona opening with a celebration of life — name it and you could win a cash prize

28 June 2020 - 00:00 By Elizabeth Sleith

Having stood silent since mid-March due to you-know-what, Barcelona's opera house reopened on Monday with a string quartet playing Puccini to a full house — 2,292 living, breathing audience members, not a single one of whom was wearing a mask or worried in the slightest about social distancing. They were, after all, plants...

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