The Cooper-Hewitt is a quirky little museum, an outpost of the Smithsonian Institution located on New York City’s Museum Mile. It occupies the graceful Andrew Carnegie mansion at the corner of 91st and Fifth Avenue, across the street from Central Park and a few blocks north of the Guggenheim Museum. Unlike the Guggenheim, […]
The Pasha loves Konstanze and wants to add her to his Turkish harem, but not by force, only if she can return his love. She, a shipwrecked Spanish noblewoman stranded on an alien shore, has already given her heart to another and resolves to be faithful to her Belmonte, even though the […]
We knew nothing of Madame outside the walls of our convent school.
The nuns were a French order. Madeleine Sophie Barat founded the order to teach the daughters of the upper middle class during the French Revolution. Religious education was forbidden during Robspierre’s Reign of Terror and Madeleine Sophie went to […]