Well behaved audiences mean opera houses are safer than supermarkets, experts say

Full audiences should be allowed at opera and classical concerts, according to a leading German medical institution, because the classical audience is “very special, usually well-educated, disciplined, don’t talk, usually stick to rules and don’t sit opposite each other.” After analysing international studies on airborne virus transmission, they also recommend allowing orchestras to return to an almost usual distance from each other, and suggest there is a greater risk of contracting Covid-19 at the supermarket than at Salomé