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Bursting forth to the sound of Gregorian chants and the signature sounds of one of Malta’s most recognisable contemporary composers, the video dance La Pietà promises to be a considerable departure from traditional Holy Week imagery.
Ruben Zahra speaks to
Lara Zammit about his latest project and the ideas that spurred it into being.
Your video dance project was formed as a reproduction of Michelangelo’s Pietà. What about Michelangelo’s sculpture inspired you to create this piece?
The Pietà is a subject depicted by many artists portraying the Madonna cradling the dead body of Christ. Undoubtedly, the most famous Pietà sculpture is by Michelangelo Buonarroti which depicts the Madonna as a young woman. I always found this detail very intriguing. The Madonna seems to be younger than her son.
Franz Kafka’s famous piece The Metamorphosis has been given a new interpretation by composer and director Ruben Zahra. Here,
Jo Caruana chats with
Tricia Dawn Williams, the pianist bringing the soundtrack to life.
Artistic inspiration comes in all sorts of wonderful forms – books, songs, films, places, other people. However, for renowned local composer Ruben Zahra, his latest spark of inspiration came in the form of Franz Kafka’s 20th century literary classic The Metamorphosis – a novella that follows the psychological struggle of Gregor Samsa, a young salesman who finds himself suddenly transformed into a large insect.
Zahra has spent the past year or so transforming this novella into Kafka’s Insect, an innovative production that will reinterpret the piece through music, sound and video-art, and which now can be viewed in its entirety online.