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"Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written."
- Yevgeny Zamyatin
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| | Molto Agitato:
The Mayhem behind the Music at the Metropolitan Opera
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| | by Johanna Fiedler
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ZIN Product Number: 10091774
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Edition: 1 ED
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Incorporated
ISBN: 038548187X
Release Date: Jan 10, 2001
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"Behind the gold curtains of the Metropolitan Opera House, amid the elaborate sets, bejeweled costumes, and labyrinth of administrative offices, the Met has traditionally operated in great secrecy. Until now." "Johanna Fiedler, who was the Met's general press representative for fifteen years, draws upon her insider's knowledge and reveals for the first time the company's Byzantine inner workings and the personal, social, economic, and artistic struggles that have always characterized the Met." Molto Agitato is a tale with an appropriately operatic cast of characters - haughty blue bloods, ambitious social climbers, determined administrators, stubborn board members, temperamental artists - all maneuvering to use their power and influence to make the Met conform to their own agendas. Fiedler brings to life the early days of the Met, with the imperious Toscanini arriving from Italy and Caruso filling the house; the post-World War II years, when the unions gained strength and plagued the company with strikes; and the ever present passions of tenors and sopranos, clashing offstage as well as on. But most revelatory are Fiedler's portrayals of James Levine and Joseph Volpe and their practically parallel ascendancies - Levine rising from prodigy to artistic director, Volpe advancing from stagehand to general manager - and their once strained relationship that was compounded by Volpe's much publicized firing of the soprano Kathleen Battle.
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