Enter the delicate princess

So, about that living in San Francisco... Last night I went to the SF Opera with some co-workers (one of whom used to be their website guru, and who had scored some great tickets) to see Turandot. I was familiar with the piece, having seen it not only in person at the SF Opera a few years ago when this production premiered (with the David Hockney sets -- a sort of Chinese Dr. Seuss world in red and pale green), but from the repeated showings on PBS of the