De Munt to close for multi-million euro renovation
Brussels’ opera house De Munt will shut for eight months next year, with performances taking place in alternative venues
Work due to end in 2016
The work will include, among other things, “the renovation of the stage floor, a reorganisation of the space below the stage, access corridors and the lift for stage scenery,” explained Servais Verherstraeten, secretary of state for public buildings. “Also, a number of changes in the theatre itself have become unavoidable, such as improvements to ventilation, decoration in the boxes and the artists’ entrance.”
The house is now looking for alternative venues for productions. The first production concerned, Rachmaninov Troika, a set of three works by Sergei Rachmaninov, will run from June 2015 in the former Marivaux cinema on Adolphe Maxlaan.
Work will take place from June 2015 until January 2016. Before that, work on the administrative building in Leopoldstraat behind the building will be carried out, together with workshops, offices and rehearsal spaces, starting this November.
Photo courtesy europeanoperatours.com
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