Books

Placido sells a book

W.W. Norton picked up the world publishing rights to The Joy of Opera by Placido Domingo, general director of the Los Angeles Opera. Steve Wasserman, the former LAT book editor now with Kneerim & Williams at Fish & Richardson, represented the tenor. Publication isn't until 2009.


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