The
original opus was composed exactly 300 years ago. The adapted
version will premiere on Tuesday at Madrid's popular EDP Gran
Via venue, coinciding with the global Climate Action Day.
It will be accompanied by projected images of wildfires and
other effects of climate change, such as drought.
"I would love the audience to feel really bothered at some point
by becoming truly aware of what is happening," added Costa, who
has made the sheet music freely available for anyone to play.
Scientists have linked searing temperatures and dry and windy
conditions in many parts of the world, including southern
Europe, to climate change.
Ernesto Rodriguez Camino, president of the Spanish meteorology
association, said the impact of climate change in Spain was
evident.
"The trend is for longer, more intense heatwaves, and associated
with the heatwaves there can be more violent wildfires, and also
stronger rainfall with potentially catastrophic effects," he
said.
(Reporting by Antoine Demaison and Silvio Castellanos, writing
by Andrei Khalip; editing by David Latona and Bernadette Baum)
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