La Maupin introduces herself to the audience, sharing some of the gossip that has been spread about her.

Maupin takes to the stage of the Paris Opéra.

Maupin challenges a rude nobleman to a duel.

Four Victorian women sit down for a most unusual tea time. The women have two things in common: their dislike of the other women and of their husbands. Each woman refuses to drink tea for one reason or another while brainstorming ideas such as poison, prison, bee-stings or drowning. But who are they plotting against– their partners, or each other?

The Goddess of Music reconciles the tribe of the arco violin players with the tribe of pizzicato players, inviting them to make music together.