From 28 to 30 November 2025, join us for three days of concerts, lectures, and hybrid artistic formats exploring the Romantic fascination with the sublime, the mystical, and the unexplainable.
✨ Highlights include:
✨ Concerts historiques reimagining fin-de-siècle sound worlds
✨ A lecture on spiritism by Hannah Welslau
✨ A lecture on symbolism in music by Pauline Lebbe
✨ A Gothic gamebook, where audience and singers create a story together
✨ A Laterna Magica performance, merging light, sound and illusion
✨ Live electronics in an eerie setting (The Cabinet)
The festival is organised by Le Vecchie Musiche in collaboration with Orpheus Instituut, Koninklijk Conservatorium Antwerpen and ARIA (Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts).
With the support of Stad Gent and Cultuur Gent.
🎟️ Festival passes, day tickets, and single-event tickets available.
Please note: limited seating (max. 100 guests per event).
Orpheus Instituut, Ghent (Belgium)
🔗 Discover the full schedule & tickets:
https://orpheusinstituut.be/nl/nieuws-en-events/oddities-rarities
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