'Running back to daddy'

The hiring of Joseph Volpe, the former general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, by his successor, Peter Gelb, to handle what are expected to be tough negotiations with the Met's unionized workers strikes The New York Observer's Zachary Woolfe as an indicator of "how profound the company’s financial worries must be" . . .

http://www.observer.com/2010/culture/curious-case-peter-gelb#