‘Travel Room 6+’

​​​​Jules Verne’s book Around the World in Eighty Days was a major inspiration for journalist Nellie Bly at the end of the nineteenth century. She wanted to be the first to travel around the earth as fast as possible. She managed it in just 72 days. 

Armed with her barrel organ and her versatile voice, soprano Lieselot De Wilde takes that journey as a starting point to sing songs from all over the world. And not just any songs because Lieselot has chosen female singers and songwriters from all over the world who have helped shape the history of music to perform in her Travel Room. Who is the Maria Callas of Cameroon or the Edith Piaf of Romania? Or what is a Portuguese ‘Cantiga de amigo’? Discover it all in this poetic music room.