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Leonard Slatkin Canned From Met Gig?
Yow! Leonard Slatkin, of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, has been, opera gossips hear, straight up fired from conducting "La Traviata" at the Met. But how were his reviews? "Several times I noted looks of fear in the vocalists' faces as they glanced over at Slatkin wailing away at a pace faster than necessary in several key moments." YIKES.
Whoa. Shit just got real.
No, not Lenny!
Here's hoping that "getting Slatkined" catches on in opera-world slang (if there is such a thing).
Actually, there is. (If you'll excuse the pre-9/11 layout of the page, I promise to add "Slatkinned" to the queens' dictionary.)
That is fantastic.
Ah, suck it up, Met singers. You've obviously been coddled by Levine for far too long.
Ha, I think the problem is not so much that he wasn't coddling them as that he showed up NOT KNOWING THE PIECE. He'd never conducted it, he didn't prepare, and the critics dragged him over the coals whilst loving on the singers.
Must. Get. Ticket. Sounds like the "Dance of the Vampires" of the Opera world!