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Because the current production is terrible and doesn't sell. Complain all you want about the previous Zeffirelli show, but it definitley put bums in seats. Virtually every performance had 75-85% capacity for week nights alone and weekends were always sold out. the Willy Decker might have been a critical and (in some circles) artistic success but the audience hated it and it usually only achieved 50% capacity for fantastic singers, for a pot boiler like La Traviata that's a disaster, and for a dollars and cents opera house like the Met, that's financailly problematic. Traviata pays for new Parsifals or Satyagrahas. It was an import from Salzburg for Netrebko anyway, and she's refused to perform it again since, which is why it didn't work at the Met. Strangley enough Netrebko is doing more Violettas at La Scala next season in the old Cavani production. Looks like Tcherniakov's didn't go down well there either.