Over supper this evening I finished the March 23 article about the woes of the Metropolitan Opera under Peter Gelb. This amounted to a duty article for me because opera just isn't my thing (sorry, Meryl

). On the other hand, I recognize the Met as an important cultural institution, so I read the article.
Anyway, I did come away from the article with something that I find amusing. The Met's production of
La Boheme was designed by Franco Zeffirelli in 1981. That means that when Cher and Nicholas Cage went to the Met in
Moonstruck (1987), they were seeing Zeffirelli's production.
