After three months of darkness, the stage lights at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu were flipped back on this week, suggesting a return to normalcy. But as musicians took the stage for a live concert, they looked out at an audience filled with potted plants. The World’s host Marco Werman explains the scene.
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