Toughest Show on Earth My Rise and Reign at the Metropolitan Opera

Name: Toughest Show on Earth My Rise and Reign at the Metropolitan Opera
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ISBN: 9781400096756

ISBN-10: 1400096758

ISBN-13: 9781400096756

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Authors: Joseph Volpe, Charles Michener

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"The Toughest Show on Earth "is the ultimate behind-the-scenes chronicle of the divas and the dramas of New York's Metropolitan Opera House, by the remarkable man who rose from apprentice carpenter to general manager. Joseph Volpe gives us an anecdote-filled tour of more than four decades at the Met, an institution full of vast egos and complicated politics. With stunning candor, he writes about the general managers he worked under, his embattled rise to the top, the maneuverings of the blue-chip board, and his masterful approach to making a family of such artist-stars as Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Teresa Stratas, and Renee Fleming, and such visionary directors as Franco…

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List price: $17.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/9/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments



The Apprentice



"Be Patient"



Always on the Go



King Farouk



A Box at the Metropolitan



Too Many Clouds



"Can You Handle the Job?"



A Man of the Theater



From the Water to the Bridge



Texas Grit



The Turnaround Man



The Boss



Breathing with Jimmy



Battle Hymn



The New Prima Donnas



The Playground



Siamese Twins



The Trapeze Artists



No light in the Tunnel



The Club



The New Class



At Home



The Angel


Bibliography


Index