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The Toughest Show on Earth: My Rise and Reign at the Metropolitan Opera,Used
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A fascinating, anecdotefilled behindthescenes look at more than forty years of the highlights, successes, and daytoday inner workingsall about productions, the divas, and backstage dramasof New Yorks Metropolitan Opera House, by Joseph Volpe, the only general manager to have risen through the ranks.This book is the story of Volpes years leading up to those at the Met, from his first job as a stagehand at the Morosco Theater to the odd jobs he picked up moonlighting: setting up a searchlight or laying down a red carpet for a movie premiere, changing titles on the marquees at the Astor, Victor, and Paramount theaters. It is his Met yearsfrom apprentice carpenter to general managerthat give us a story about New York and the business of culture. Volpe looks at the Met today, an institution full of vast egos and complicated politics, as well as its glittering pastthe old Met at Thirtyninth and Broadway, and the political and artistic intrigues that exploded around its move to Lincoln Center. With stunning candor, he writes about the general managers he worked under, including Rudolf Bing and Anthony Bliss; his own embattled rise to the top; the maneuverings of the bluechip board; his badcop, goodcop collaboration with the conductor James Levine; and his masterful approach to making a family of such highly charged artiststars as Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Teresa Stratas, and Rene Fleming, and such visionary directors as Franco Zeffirelli, Robert Wilson, and Julie Taymor.
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