ARTICLE: Crowdfunding for Performing Arts: Opera di Firenze on stage

[ENCATC Performing Arts Management]

While smaller projects such as personal exhibitions, books and documentaries are often successfully funded, grand theaters and organizations don’t use crowdfunding as a financing tool. How can larger cultural institutions get in on the crowdfunding action? Opera di Firenze (OF) in Italy has an innovative Kickstarter campaign for a new project ant to make opera accessible to everyone. Opera for Everybody, calls upon audiences across the globe to help expand the live-streaming of OF’s productions, creating a digital venue, where the audiences will be able to attend the performances either live or on-demand,  on-site exhibitions and programs to support audience engagement both locally and internationally.

Read the article here : http://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2016/06/86779-crowdfunding-for-performing-arts-opera-di-firenze-on-stage/