Public Prefers Traditional Churches, Even on the Stage

Last Monday's Tosca opening night at the Met demonstrates the public preference for tradition as the audience booed the starkly modern and dark new production, replacing the magnificent and time honored Zeffirelli sets. Even in opera people prefer churches to look like churches, and they prefer their heroines to be pious. Piety and tradition are fundamental human values that should be revered and promoted in the arts as in life.

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