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"[Joseph] Volpe, clearly had a salutary effect on the Met[tropolitan Opera], refining its extraordinary productions capabilities and running the "madhouse" in a business-like way....Volpe, a high-school graduate of Sicilian background who came to the Met as a carpenter in 1963, casts himself as the savvy, practical, and ambitious working man who cut through the elitist WASP artifice of the Met and made it run better."Volpe, Joseph is the author of 'Toughest Show on Earth ', published 2006 under ISBN 9780307262851 and ISBN 0307262855.
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