<div id="subtitle">Metropolitan Opera hires former general manager Joseph Volpe for labor talks</div><div><p>Joseph Volpe is returning to the Metropolitan Opera nearly four years after his retirement to head the company's upcoming labor negotiations.</p><p>Volpe worked for the Met for 42 ...

<div><p>It is unclear whether Giacomo Puccini would have been weeping or cheering in his grave. He might well have been dismayed by the acoustic competition his Madame Butterfly was facing from honking New York taxi drivers. He would have winced at the visual clash between the singers' Japanese costumes and flashing neon adverts for ...