Most people in the arts assume that there just isn’t a lot of crossover between the core audiences for high culture and professional sports. But honestly, football really isn’t all that different from opera, right? …no, really! “The crowd is better behaved at the opera, [but] there are moments watching both that make my spine tingle… Second-guessing plays a big role in both the football and opera experiences. By halftime of the game or intermission of the opera, almost everybody has become a critic.”