James Levine led more than 2,500 performances at the Met. In a lawsuit filed against the Met in New York State Supreme Court, Levin accused the company and its general manager Peter Gelb of “brazenly” using “vague and unsubstantiated” accusations of sexual abuse “as a pretext to end a longstanding personal campaign to force Levine out of the Met and cease fulfilling its legally enforceable financial commitments to him.” Levine countered and sued the Metropolitan Opera for breach of contract and defamation. “In light of these findings, the Met concludes that it would be inappropriate and impossible for Mr. This list may not reflect recent changes ( learn more ). ![]() Levine had authority,” the statement continued. Pages in category 'Conductors of the Metropolitan Opera' The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. He made his company debut in 2009 with a new production of Bizet’s Carmen and has since returned every season, conducting 100 performances of 13 operas, as well as numerous galas and Met Orchestra concerts at Carnegie Hall. Levine engaged in sexually abusive and harassing conduct towards vulnerable artists in the early stages of their careers, over whom Mr. Canadian-born conductor Yannick Nzet-Sguin became the Met’s Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director with the beginning of the 201819 season. “The investigation also uncovered credible evidence that Mr. Levine had engaged in sexually abusive and harassing conduct both before and during the period when he worked at the Met.” Buy Tickets Wednesday AT 7PM Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Svetlana Sozdateleva makes an exciting Met debut as the fiery femme fatale at the center of Shostakovich’s searing satire, joining forces with Brandon Jovanovich as her illicit lover. The Met cut ties with Levine, saying in a statement that its investigation into those accusations “uncovered credible evidence that Mr. Luca Salsi is the merciless Baron Scarpia, conducted by Maestro Carlo Rizzi.
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