The Met: One Hundred Years of Grand Opera by Martin Mayer

The Met:  One Hundred Years of Grand Opera by Martin Mayer is a 368-page hardcover published in 1983 by Simon and Schuster, New York.  The dust jacket has light shelf wear but no chips or tears.  Inside, the beautiful red cloth hardcover shows no evidence of ever being opened, with crisp clean pages and tight binding.  The condition is very good. Book Summary Martin Mayer writes that "for the past century the story of opera worldwide has been inseparable from the story of the Met."  And never before has the story of the world's greatest opera company has been told so compellingly and illustrated so lavishly as it is here.  In commemorations of its centennial, the Metropolitan Opera for the first time has opened all its massive and fascinating archives for this celebration of a hundred years of musical glory.  The history proves even more glamorous than the legends. Martin Mayer takes us on stage at the Met and backstage, into the audience and the board rooms.  For the story of the arti