What’s New at the Metropolitan Opera?

By Lenore Skenazy October 28, 2014

Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera

Rudy Giuliani, Benjamin Netanyahu and Moses. One of these men is not like the other, and yet here they all get equal time. So does a Top Chef contestant. And so does Bubbie.

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