Noisy at the Wrong Times

By Michael Volpe

'Hugely entertaining and inspiring' The Sunday Times One of The Sunday Times' 100 biographies to love The inspirational and colourful memoir of Michael Volpe, the general manager of Opera Holland Park. The son of Italian immigrants, he and his brothers were raised by his mother on a council estate in West London, before he attended Woolverstone Hall, a prestigious state boarding school designed to give bright inner city boys the opportunity of a public school education. Set against a backdrop of nuns, hit men, ice cream vans, rugby, gangsters, strict school masters and music, Noisy at the Wrong Times is the vibrant, funny, inspiring story of a boy who was given a chance - though whether he took it or not is another question... AS SEEN ON BBC ARTS' HIP HOP 2 OPERA

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1473629403
• ISBN13: 9781473629400
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Two Roads
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.7"