{"id":36221,"date":"2016-04-14T15:30:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T19:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=36221"},"modified":"2016-04-14T15:32:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T19:32:18","slug":"the-scoop-james-levine-retires-from-metropolitan-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2016\/04\/14\/the-scoop-james-levine-retires-from-metropolitan-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | James Levine Retires From Metropolitan Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_36222\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36222\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36222\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/James_levine.jpg\" alt=\"James Levine (Photo: Michele McDonald)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/James_levine.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/James_levine-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Levine (Photo: Michele McDonald)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>New York\u2019s Metropolitan Opera (MET) has announced that longtime Music Director James Levine will retire at the end of the season in April.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released today, the MET stated Levine&#8217;s ongoing heath struggles have become too severe to allow him to continue in his role as Music Director, a post he has held since 1976.\u00a0Levine will continue as the head of the MET\u2019s Young Artist Development Program, and will conduct two final concerts in May at\u00a0Carnegie Hall.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>#LUDWIGVAN<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Get our exclusive newsletter\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LudwigVanToronto\/app_100265896690345\">here<\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0and follow us on\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LudwigVanToronto?fref=ts\">Facebook<\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>for all the latest.<\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of an era: The New York\u2019s Metropolitan Opera has announced longtime Music Director James Levine will retire at the end of the season in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":36222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5723,39,43],"tags":[1669,2207],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/James_levine.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-9qd","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36225,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36221\/revisions\/36225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36221"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=36221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}