Translations:Bij De Munt is online opera al jaren een nieuwe werkelijkheid/6/en

Cold feet

In 2011, the personnel gave the directors their plans for digital productions. They emphasised that online audiences could complement their theatre visitors and allow La Monnaie to break out of its quite conservative cocoon by appealing to a new audience. But the directors had cold feet. ‘They couldn’t see the value of making performances available online for free to begin with.’ They ultimately decided to change the quality of the digital productions, but not yet to take the step of offering these performances online.