Noisy at the Wrong Times - The uplifting story of a different kind of education Hugely

'Hugely entertaining and inspiring' The Sunday Times AS SEEN ON BBC ARTS' HIP HOP 2 OPERA 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 vivid, funny and often moving story of a boy who was given a chance - though whether he took it or not is another question...

Product details

• Authors: Michael Volpe, Volpe Michael
• Publisher: Two Roads
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 17.09.2015
• EAN: 9781473629400
• ISBN: 978-1-4736-2940-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 197 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / School Age, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Education, 21st Century, Italy, Opera, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Social and cultural history, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs