Posted: 4/14/16 at 5:28pm
The Met has announced that James Levine will leave his position as Music Director at the end of this season, with a successor to be announced in the next few months. This announcement comes 2 months after Levine and Peter Gelb announced that Levine -- who suffers from several medical conditions which have severely limited his capabilities over the past decade -- was experimenting with a new therapeutic regimen in the hopes of extending his tenure.
Levine has held his current position for nearly 40 years, and is only the third person in Metropolitan Opera history to hold the title "Music Director".
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/15/arts/music/james-levine-transformative-at-the-met-opera-is-stepping-down.html
Updated On: 4/14/16 at 05:28 PM
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