Translations:Bij De Munt is online opera al jaren een nieuwe werkelijkheid/7/en

The turning point was the production of Wagner’s Parsifal, when La Monnaie approached the Italian playwright and director, Romeo Castellucci. ‘He became really enthusiastic when he saw our recordings,’ says Nicolaï, ‘and exclaimed that he wanted a copy on DVD, so that he could show it at the Palais des Papes in Avignon.’ Castellucci was artist in residence there at the time, and it became a digital success story. The DVD was published and suddenly everyone was interested in going in this same direction.’