Wednesday, March 31, 2010

OJT


Leonard Slatkin, conducting Verdi's "La Traviata" at the Metropolitan Opera, "showed up for rehearsals not fully knowing the score," Anthony Tommasini writes in The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/arts/music/31traviata.html?hpw

UPDATE: After one performance and a chorus of pans from the New York critics, Slatkin withdraws from the Met production, Dave Itzkoff reports in The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/02/arts/music/02slatkin.html?ref=music