Joseph Volpe with Charles Michener: The Toughest Show on Earth. ...

This is such a delight. Not just for opera lovers but anybody interested in splashes of personality, performance finesses, people leadership and management of the unmanageable. Excitedly written with humour and with an eye for the creative, just spendid stuff. The description of Pavarotti and Domingo, as kind-of Siamese Twins of the Met, is a gem, and the book as a whole - a treasure chest.