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'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

Noisy at the Wrong Times: The uplifting story of a different kind of education - 'Hugely entertaining and inspiring' The Sunday Times

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'Hugely entertaining and inspiring' The Sunday TimesOne of The Sunday Times' 100 biographies to loveThe inspirational and colourful memoir of... Read more

    Publisher: John Murray Press
    Publication Date: 17/09/2015
    ISBN13: 9781473629400, 978-1473629400
    ISBN10: 1473629403

    Number of Pages: 320

    Non Fiction , Biography

    Description

    '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

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