James Levine
New York Metropolitan Opera announced on 14 April 2016 that, due to ill health, seventy-two-year-old American conductor and pianist James Levine will end his forty year tenure as the company's Music Director at the end of the current 2015-16 season. Levine has held this position since 1976, and will become Music Director Emeritus. The Met plans to announce a new Music Director during the coming months. James Levine, born in 1943, started the Lindemann Young Artists Development Program in 1980, and has also held positions with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic and the Ravinia Festival. He has been suffering from various health problems for about ten years.
Posted: 24 April 2016
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