No one who follows classical music can have been remotely surprised by the announcement that came in from the Metropolitan Opera earlier today: James Levine, who has been the dominant artistic presence at the company for forty years, will retire as music director at the end of the current season. Levine's health problems"Parkinson's Disease and an array of other ailments"have hampered his work for years, not only at …
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 07:57PM on April 14, 2016