OK, I’ve given myself away, and a couple of readers spotted it.

The real reason I favor Rudy Giuliani is–he’s an opera fan!

Here are my own answers to the questions Stefan Zucker asked Rudy:

–Have you ever booed? No. I have never got beyond just sitting on my hands.

–Have you ever wept? Yes, many times. The big tear-jerker for me is Traviata, I’m not sure why. Also Bellini of course–”A non credea mirarti” is hard to listen to without blubbing if the singer is even halfway good.

–Have you ever fallen asleep at the opera? Yes, at a Covent Garden performance of Boris Godunov. I was working two jobs at the time, though, so I’m not sure the composer or performers can be blamed. It wasn’t the performance not being goodunov that had me nodunov… Sorry, been hanging round with Mark Steyn too much, I think.

For a fictionalized account of Rudy at the opera, there is always Fire from the Sun (though I made him Irish, and governor).