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Alfred a Knopf, Date: 2006 "An anecdote-filled behind-the-scenes look at more than forty years of the highlights, successes, and day-to-day inner workings - all about productions, the divas, and backstage dramas - of New York's Metropolitan Opera House, by Joseph Volpe, the only general manager to have risen through the ranks.". "This book is the story of Volpe's 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 years - from apprentice carpenter to general manager - that 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 past - the old Met at Thirty-ninth and Broadway, and the political and artistic intrigues that exploded around its move to Lincoln Center. With 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 blue-chip board; his bad-cop, good-cop collaboration with the conductor James Levine; and his masterful approach to making a family of such highly charged artist-stars as Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Teresa Stratas, and Renee Fleming, and such visionary ...

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Date: 2006. Hardcover. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2006. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group ISBN 0307262855 9780307262851 [US]

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Date: 2006. Hardcover. Very Good. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2006. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group ISBN 0307262855 9780307262851 [US]

Knopf, Date: 2006. First Edition. Hardback, Dustjacket. Like New, slight wear to cover. 2006. Knopf ISBN 0307262855 9780307262851 [US]

New York, NY: Knopf. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket. Date: 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. 0307262855 . Scuff mark (small) to exterior edge of pages. Very Good overall condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings.; 6.5 X 1 X 9.75 inches; 320 pages . 2006. Knopf ISBN 0307262855 9780307262851 [US]

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Date: 2006. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 304 p. Includes index, illustrations, bibliography. No jacket. Signed by author.. 2006. Alfred A. Knopf ISBN 0307262855 9780307262851 [US]

Knopf, Date: 2006-05-02. Hardcover. Like New. 7x5x0. Signed. Inscribed by author. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. *Autographed by author.* 2006. Knopf ISBN 0307262855 9780307262851 [US]

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Date: 2006. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. x, 304pp. Illustrations. Near fine/fine. Superb, tight first edition of this memoir by the fifteenth general manager of the Metropolitan Opera (1990-2006) -- handsomely signed and inscribed by him in black ballpoint on the title page: "To Mario / All the best / Joseph Volpe. 2006. Alfred A. Knopf ISBN 0307262855 9780307262851 [US]

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Date: 2006. Inscribed and signed by the author. Numerous b/w photographs and illustrations. 304 pp. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Previous ownerÕs bookplate to front pastedown; else, no other noticeable damage or flaws; interior tight, clean and bright; a very nice copy. Very good/Very good. 2006. Alfred A. Knopf ISBN 0307262855 US

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Date: 2006. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0307262855 . Very Good in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket. ; ; 9.30 X 6.60 X 1.30 inches; 320 pages . 2006. Alfred A. Knopf ISBN 0307262855 9780307262851 [US]

New York: Knopf. Date: 2006. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0307262855 . Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket creased along the top and spine, security tag on the interior. ; 9.3 X 6.6 X 1.3 inches; 320 pages . 2006. Knopf ISBN 0307262855 9780307262851 [US]

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