Slatkin takes aim at diva behavior and backstage politics that led to his departure from Met's 'La Traviata'

It wasn't the devastating reviews and Internet gossip per se that most upset Leonard Slatkin in the wake of his controversial departure from the Metropolitan Opera's "La Traviata" in April. It was the widely repeated assumption -- influenced, he says, by a major misreading of his online diary -- that he arrived unprepared to conduct Verdi's masterpiece.

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