Katze takes place at Pjazza Teatru Rjal.A ‘site-specific intervention’ by Adrian Abela, titled Katze, invites the public to interact with the morphing boundary of the Royal Opera site as designed by architect Renzo Piano and behold it from a renewed perspective.
Abela works to manifest the intangible and in this particular piece he is giving form to the interaction that occurs between the public and the building.
He makes use of the visual and the auditory to interpret this interaction with the Opera House as it stands today, a building left unbuilt.
The event includes four interpretations of Verdi’s Aida.
The Royal Opera House was designed by Edward Middleton Barry and erected in 1866.
Six years after its completion, the Opera House was severely damaged in a fire and had to be reconstructed.
It invites the public to interact with the building
Destroyed in the last war, it stood in ruins for more than 60 years, with the public showing moments of interest and long phases of indifference and neglect.
With time, people constructed a sense of imagined nostalgia and developed strong concerns regarding the aesthetic of architecture, which most likely were only applied to this particular site.
Katze – Boundaries, Embodies and Sound takes place at Pjazza Teatru Rjal at different times of the day until July 29. Different interpretations of Verdi’s Aida take place at 8.30pm on July 17 and 25. Admission is free.
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