“Cutting costs in the wake of the economic downturn, the Met[ropolitan Opera] is dropping next season’s highly anticipated revival of John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles that was to feature the company debut of Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth. Angela Gheorghiu and Thomas Hampson, who also were to appear, instead will sing in a less-costly revival of Verdi’s La Traviata, Met general manager Peter Gelb said Thursday.”