James Levine to retire as Met music director after 40 years

Category: Music

FILE - This July 7, 2006 file photo shows Boston Symphony Orchestra music director James Levine, right, conducting the symphony on its opening night performance at Tanglewood in Lenox., Mass. The Metropolitan Opera said, Thursday, April 14, 2016, that Levine will retire as music director at season's end. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)NEW YORK (AP) — James Levine will retire as the Metropolitan Opera's music director at the end of this season because of Parkinson's disease, ending a 40-year run that lifted the company to a golden era but became increasingly problematic as his health declined.


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