Join Levine School of Music lecturer Carl Yaffe as he discusses the role of opera in Catherine the Great's court and provides commentary throughout a performance by Levine faculty artists Jennifer Suess, soprano and Irina Kats, piano. 

While British painters who painted Catherine the Great during her lifetime occupy a very modest place in history, engravings of the empress made by British masters were on sale either as separate prints or as illustrations in books about her and her Russia.  It was, however, Catherine's misfortune to rule when some of England's greatest caricaturists were at the height of their powers and it was the images (one hesitates to call them likenesses) that they produced that proved the most influential.

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Members' Holiday Open House

Examining the great houses of England like Highclere Castle (famous as the setting for Downton Abbey) during the Edwardian Age, this lecture looks at life both upstairs and downstairs. This is the fourth lecture of the Managing Great Estates lecture series, presented as part of Living Artfully: At Home with Marjorie Merriweather Post. 

Join Michael Hall as he discusses the 8,000 acre Exbury Estate purchased that is still a thriving home to the Rothschild family today. This is the third lecture of the Managing Great Estates lecture series, presented as part of Living Artfully: At Home with Marjorie Merriweather Post.

Join Charles J. Burns, Associate Curator of the Preservation Society of Newport County for his account of life at Newport during the Gilded Age. This is the second lecture of the Managing Great Estates lecture series, presented as part of Living Artfully: At Home with Marjorie Merriweather Post.

Join Estella Chung as she discusses the three magnificent homes of Marjorie Merriweather Post. This is the first lecture of the Managing Great Estates lecture series, presented as part of Living Artfully: At Home with Marjorie Merriweather Post. 

Stefano Papi showcases the jewelry collections of eleven international icons.