Pjazza Teatru Rjal
Open-air theatre set in the restored ruins of a bombed Victorian opera house, framed in light steel.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Pjazza Teatru Rjal in Valletta follows the Italian architect Renzo Piano and a plan for one empty city plot that a Maltese newspaper called his twenty-five-year-old dream. It reaches back to the opera house Edward Middleton Barry built here in the eighteen sixties, the fire and bombs that undid it, and the governments that kept trying to fill the gap. Best heard standing among the column stumps, facing the stage.
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