But in La Cenerentola, Rossini's version of the fairy tale, which returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday night, Juan Diego Flórez, the 29-year-old Peruvian tenor, walked off with the show.

We think we can trust John with this new position as he has his feet on the ground.

You have this down to a fine art? I said. A girl needs to, she said composedly.

I will make this box of electronics and computer chips fly like no other spaceship has ever flown. Mission Control wanted to see what this crate could do.