thus the east coast can say good-bye to a most undesirable Super Bowl celebration. The game may have been lackluster, and yet the entertainment seems to have usurped the actual sport.

What is the world coming to?

The shining star on the Super Bowl stage was none other than the lovely soprano Renée Fleming. While Dana Elaine Owens--more popularly known as Queen Latifah--performed beautifully with her tribute to "America the Beautiful," Fleming lived up fully to expectation.

Football performances are normally reserved for ubiquitous pop stars. We were--as Anne Midgette at the Washington Post put it--lucky to see an opera heavyweight, the people's diva, bring modern opera to the next level of celebrity.

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