James Levine
Birthday: 1943-06-23
Place of Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
The Transformation of the World Into Music
This film was prepared as a introduction to a series of opera broadcasts on German television. It de...
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La Clemenza di Tito
"La Clemenza di Tito" was Mozart's last stage work. It was commissioned for an Imperial coronation c...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Wagner's Dream
Wagner's Dream-the documentary highlighting the creative process and technical aspects involved in r...
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Don Carlo
Don Carlo (1980) Metropolitan Opera. Verdi / italian. King Philip's court is plagued by rebels, fami...
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La Forza del Destino - The Met
With James Levine at the helm, Verdi’s multi-faceted masterpiece is revealed as a drama of almost Sh...
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Rigoletto
A Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career masterp...
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Francesca da Rimini
Live performance at the Metropolitan Opera, 1984. James Levine conducting Metropolitan Opera Orchest...
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Elektra
The Otto Schenk production of Richard Strauss's "Elektra", filmed live at the Metropolitan Opera in ...
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Fantasia 2000
Blending lively music and brilliant animation, this sequel to the original 'Fantasia' restores 'The ...
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Un Ballo in Maschera
Verdi's opera performed by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by James Levine....
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Wagner: Das Rheingold
In the depths of the Rhine, the three Rhinemaidens guard the Rhinegold, a treasure of immeasurable v...
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The Metropolitan Opera: The Magic Flute
Mozart’s allegorical fairy tale has charmed audiences and inspired artists, for more than 200 years....
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The Metropolitan Opera: Don Pasquale
Donizetti’s timeless comedy shines in Otto Schenk’s enchanting production, conducted by James Levine...
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Otello
Verdi’s monumental score is fully the equal of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy—and both demand great ac...
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Il Tabarro & Pagliacci
Puccini's Il Tabarro & Leoncavallo's Pagliacci; Pavarotti and Domingo star in MET 1994-1995 seas...
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Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg
James Morris leads an all-star cast including Karita Mattila, Ben Heppner, Thomas Allen and René Pap...
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In Concert at The Met
In Concert at the Met (DVD) - Highlights Five of the Met's greatest stars - Price, Horne, Troyanos, ...
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Don Carlo
Ghiaurov, Freni, and Bumbry were great voices in their time, and they are still effective here -- go...
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Verdi: Rigoletto
The opera's dramatic structure frames and enhances the characters. Scenes of magnificence regularly ...
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Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary
This tribute to James Levine, first shown on PBS, was only part of that glorious evening. Here we ha...
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The Metropolitan Opera - Wagner: Tannhäuser
As renowned for its harmonious overture as for its romantic storybook characters, this three-act mas...
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Carmen
This all-star cast is framed by Peter Hall’s gritty, realistic production and conducted by James Lev...
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Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
This evocative production by Giancarlo Del Monaco sumptuously captures the look and feel of 14th cen...
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La Bohème
Puccini’s heartbreaking story of young love in the garrets of Belle Epoque Paris has attracted many ...
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L'Elisir d'Amore
John Copley’s colorful production, with designs by Beni Montresor, was created around the beloved su...
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
Berlioz’s colossal masterpiece requires stupendous forces—dozens of soloists, enormous chorus, orche...
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La traviata
This “Traviata” became one of the most succesful of all opera films, especially in France, where 800...
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Puccini: La bohème
"La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performe...
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Das Rheingold
From the gorgeous scene deep in the river Rhine that opens the opera, up to the magic Rainbow Bridge...
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Strauss: Elektra
It's hard to imagine confirmed Straussians not wanting this starry Metropolitan Opera performance of...
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Richard Wagner: Parsifal
The Met production easily has the most beautiful staging, designed by Otto Schenck, who also produce...
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Die Walküre
The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this sec...
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Falstaff
It is to composer and librettist Arrigo Boito and his constant pestering of the octogenarian Verdi t...
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The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala
In celebration of its 100th anniversary in 1983, the Metropolitan Opera hosts a four-hour performanc...
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Siegfried
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the N...
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Idomeneo
Opera royalty Luciano Pavarotti brings dignity and power to the title role in this 1982 production. ...
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Verdi: Nabucco
The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his lon...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Idomeneo
Mozart’s early masterpiece returned to the Met for the first time in more than a decade with Music D...
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Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust
Radiant mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and dashing Italian tenor Marcello Giordani are unlucky lovers in...
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Director and choreographer Mark Morris’s production of Gluck’s masterpiece updates the immortal stor...
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La Forza del Destino
Leonora plans to elope with Don Alvaro, but he accidentally shoots and kills her father, who curses ...
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La Traviata - The Met
James Levine leads a remarkable cast in one of Verdi’s most enduringly popular operas and brings fre...
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Tristan und Isolde
Inspired by Wagner’s own tortured affair with the wife of his patron, this searing masterwork is bas...
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Der Rosenkavalier
In this stunning performance from 1982, Strauss’s enchanting fairy tale for adults is blessed with a...
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Ariadne auf Naxos
Jessye Norman is a regal Ariadne, the mythological Greek heroine in this opera-within-an-opera, oppo...
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Il Trovatore
Luciano Pavarotti brings his spectacular voice and artistry to one of the most famous of all tenor r...
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The Metropolitan Opera: The Master-Singers of Nuremberg
James Levine leads a stirring performance of Wagner’s epic comedy, seen in Otto Schenk’s classic pro...
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In Rehearsal: A New Butterfly for the Met
Late Academy Award–winning director Anthony Minghella made his Met debut on Opening Night of the 200...
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The Verbier Festival & Academy 10th Anniversary: Piano Extravaganza
Switzerland's annual Verbier Festival has become one of the premier international musical celebratio...
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Luisa Miller: Metropolitan Opera
Renata Scotto is the innocent Luisa, very much in love with Rodolfo (Plácido Domingo in one of his b...
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