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James Levine
Music Director
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James Levine's name has become inseparable from that of the Metropolitan Opera of New York. In 31 years of collaboration with this distinguished venue, he has conducted almost 2000 performances of 75 different operas. It is thanks to James Levine that the Met has finally presented such important works as Idomeneo, Clemenza di Tito, Porgy and Bess, Oedipus Rex, I Vespri Siciliani, I Lombardi, Stiffelio, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagony, Erwartung, Lulu, Cenerentola and Moses and Aaron.
James Levine has also premiered The Ghosts of Versailles, an opera by John Corigiliano, as well as The Great Gatsby by Harbison. His endeavors in this opera house are extensive. He has organized television broadcasts of numerous works, created the Met's Young Artist Development Program, proposed for the first time in half a century the complete Ring of the Nibelungen and reintroduced recitals and concerts by house artists. The list of achievements can be lengthened considerably.
From 1973 to 1993, James Levine was Musical Director of the Ravinia Festival where his accomplishments are etched in the memory of all American music-lovers. Since September 1999, James Levine has become Artistic Director of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Recipient of an impressive number of international prizes, James Levine's universally acclaimed career as a conductor is joined by that of an attentive and passionate piano accompanist.
He has collaborated with singers such as Jennie Tourel, Hans Hotter, R?gine Crespin, Nicola? Gedda, Leontyne Price, Christa Ludwig, Pl?cido Domingo, Birgit Nilsson, Cecilia Bartoli, Kiri Te Kanawa, Hermann Prey, Jessye Norman, Luciano Pavarotti, Elisabeth S?derstr?m, Renata Scotto, and Margaret Price. Musical director of the UBS Verbier Festival Youth Orchestra, James Levine returns to Verbier this year for the fourth time.
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