desirePlate 559 · Muscat, Oman

Royal Opera House Muscat

An opera of carved sandstone, because a sultan wanted Verdi in a gulf of quiet.

2011 · Teatro Projects / WATG · Middle East

The chamber score

Hizham Bar'i

Omani traditional · Oman

A fort of mud and palm. The drum is the gate.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The royal opera house, a landmark of Omani cultural opening.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Royal Opera House Muscat through desire — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Royal Opera House Muscat was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.