The elephant in the room, er hall

During all the hubub surround the Pittsburgh Opera's "Aida" last spring, complete with the conductor singing Radames, I never did get back to you about the elephant. No big deal (well they are big), but in this article I wrote incorrectly that the Pittsburgh Opera had used a baby elephant in 1996, but that actually happed in 1988. A kind reader corrected me on this and sent an image of the elephant from the brochure. I seem to remember that someone told me it spooked the poor animal, so the two new elephant babies at the Pittsburgh Zoo can rest assured they won't be put on stage.