The swarm of bees that descended on Opera Philadelphia's equipment truck over the spring has gone to work. Et voilà! A signature cocktail.
It’s unclear why this swarm landed on a truck rumbling through Center City — or during an opera by Puccini and not, say, Bizet.
“It’s usually a bush, though it can be odd things, like a mailbox or a stop sign in urban environments, and why they picked this truck going by, I just don’t know,” Schoefer said. “That’s the fascinating thing.” The week before, he said, he caught a swarm in a particular bush outside a house in Radnor that for some reason appears to be a magnet for bees.
Swarms are seldom a challenge for a beekeeper because the bees are in a “desperate mode to find a new home,” Schoefer said. “They just don’t have a whole lot of energy that they can spend on trying to defend themselves. They’ve got to find a new home. If it starts raining, they’re done.” Inside the Academy, while Mimì desperately looked for Marcello during Act III, Opera Philadelphia workers cheered as the bees were corralled and secured in the box. Schoefer drove the bees to his place, where he dubbed them “the Opera Swarm.” The sets were loaded and the truck drove off, bee-free.The Opera Swarm produced honey, and Eblen got the idea to divert some of it to be mixed into a signature cocktail served to opera lovers this fall at Opera Philadelphia’s Festival O23.
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