So it was a real giggle fest!  Just reading about your adventure at the opera makes me hear Nessun Dorma over and over again in my head.  I have listened to Pavrotti, Bocelli and Paul Potts all perform it on You Tube.  I think I like Bocelli the best.  

You do look beautiful in your opera finery.  I don't think the lady behind you got the memo that you are supposed to dress up for the opera.  

Nana made me go to the Met with one of her friends when I was a teen to see Die Fledermaus (Strauss).  It was just this older lady friend of hers and me. She was a teacher and esplained to me in detail what the opera was about so I would know what was going on.  I didn't want to go.  All my friends were at the football game and I didn't want to go.   Not what a teen wants to do on a Saturday afternoon.  She also took me to see the Barber of Seville.   I didn't appreciate it at all back then.  However I can say that I have seen opera performed at the New York Metropolitan Opera House.