Fascinating interview, so much history that I found my jaw dropping more than a few times. No wonder those who have an opportunity to work with him always speak so highly of him. What an amazing life!

@roybradley2392

3 жыл бұрын

pro trick: watch movies at flixzone. I've been using them for watching a lot of movies during the lockdown.

@felixjoseph8815

3 жыл бұрын

@Roy Bradley Definitely, I've been using flixzone for months myself =)

I enjoyed watching him conduct for Pavarotti!

mark love you

What a shame such talent and intellect had to end tragically in shame and humiliation. Much like a grand opera drama itself......

It speaks! 😱

@photo161

5 жыл бұрын

Is this grotesquery a living example of the "Picture of Dorian Grey" effect?

@photo161

5 жыл бұрын

But only after it molests little and not so little boys

A great musician and orchestral conductor!!

@photo161

5 жыл бұрын

Not!

@photo161

4 жыл бұрын

And as you imply, that entitles him to destroy the lives of young men and boys...perhaps you'd like to join him

@georgeboskovic2903

3 жыл бұрын

A lousy musician and a twisted pervert, you mean.

@veganonly

2 жыл бұрын

@@photo161 Are you crazy, you idiot??? What are you??? He's a great person and you?? A nothing!!

Impressive CV... Could you start on Monday, James?...

@WM712

6 жыл бұрын

i wouldn't recommend..

@photo161

5 жыл бұрын

a witty response and apt, very...

Incredible opera conductor, symphonic conductor and great singer's coach - all around musical genius. I wish I had had the chance to work with him.

@damondbarbee

6 жыл бұрын

Marla Volovna do you still feel that way?

@brahms44ify

6 жыл бұрын

He is still everything I said, a genius in music. I have heard about his darker side, and yes it is disturbing.

@phantomfantom

6 жыл бұрын

Maria Volovna, Wow... what a "genius" lol... the massive hero worship industry propped this non-exceptional conductor up for decades... and his disgusting crimes were covered up by the MET administration and were wink-winked away by the gay cabal in the MET and in NY.... heads should roll at the MET for all their coverups and lies...

@brahms44ify

6 жыл бұрын

I do not condone his crimes. Obviously you must be a fine musician to know that he is not a musical genius? I am a professional opera singer who has sung worldwide, and I can say easily that he is. His musical abilities have nothing to do with other aspects of his character, but why negate everything?

@brahms44ify

6 жыл бұрын

We agree to disagree. In my opinion Bill Clinton was a very good president albeit a terrible womanizer. So does his being a sexist and a womanizer cancel out that he was a good president and left was with no deficit? Go after Trump, who is neither a good president and is a war mongering racist, misogynist and a man who has gone after female children as well.

Extraordinary Human Being. Interviewed. Thank for sharing.

I love the James Lavine´s productions of operas at MET. I have a lot of DVDs of these productions and there is no one single which is a "bad work". All great, musically and visually.

No civilized society can exist without men like this. When his critics are long buried in obscurity, what he has accomplished will live on.

@WM712

6 жыл бұрын

I can assure you that civilised society can exist without pedophiles...

@photo161

5 жыл бұрын

And civilized society can certainly benefit by being rid of those who sanctimoniously endeavor to rationalize the predation of innocent vulnerable young people by voracious pedophiles. They are nothing less than enablers arguing in effect that the victims' assaulted by a pedophile should consider themselves privileged to have had their lives destroyed since the damage was perpetrated by such an alleged "genius." as this execrable pervert, James Levine

@JohnFromRI10

4 жыл бұрын

What Domingo and Levine have helped to accomplish is to give a rationale that Classical music and opera are snakepits of pedophilia and womanizing. They are making such media dinosaurs in America.

It is said that by age 50 a man has the face he deserves...

Seems like a delightful human being. Best Missa Solemnis (Beethoven) I have ever heard, recorded or live.

@georgeboskovic2903

3 жыл бұрын

That's the sickest comment I read in a long time.

@rolfgiehmann528

7 ай бұрын

I think some of his recordings are overated too be honest . I don't like his carmina burana particularly . He's no bernstein or karajan either

If the MET is going to "unperson" Levine, they need to do so also with Beethoven, Puccini, Mozart, Wagner et al. They were all flawed humans. Who isn't?

@jesus-of-cheeses

6 жыл бұрын

Alicia Byer So like Tchaikovsky? Should his work be banned too?

@johnrandolph6121

6 жыл бұрын

You really think it's feasible for the Met to keep hiring Levine? And why not hire Harvey Weinstein as executive director, too. You are delusional.

@ClassicHolic

6 жыл бұрын

That's a stupid proposition. Tchaikovsky, if he molested somebody, had been long dead. What good does banning his work do? Levine, on the other hand, is very much alive and was still active in the Met. What is gonna happen if they still kept him around any longer?

@photo161

5 жыл бұрын

It was widely believed for decades, at least from the early '80s, that the Met board had had to pay off the families of alleged victims in order to keep the questionable incidences quiet. If so, and it would not take a great deal of investigating to determine the legitimacy of that "if", then the Met is guilty, at least, of flagrant hypocrisy in its treatment of Levine.

@photo161

5 жыл бұрын

How disgraceful of you to try to rationalize the viciously destructive behavior of this voracious unrepentant sexual predator. Shame on you! And what a filthy, brazen and baseless a slander you commit when you even suggest a comparison between his gluttonous pedophilia and the alleged actions of any of the above named great men from the past. And just when, had he not finally been exposed, do you think your poor "unperson" was going to stop destroying young lives? Whatever could possess anyone - and that means you- to indulge in such a vile endeavor as to groundlessly impugn the names of some great men in order to attempt to whitewash the crimes of one such diseased, depraved, and prolific a pervert as is this your James Levine?

It would appear that he likkkkkkkkkkkes the boyzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

It's all about arrogance... arrogance that drove The Anointment of "Jimmy" as Principal Conductor in 1972 - a mere 8 months after his first Tosca at the MET (even though there were dozens of conductors with greater musicianship and experience)... arrogance that manufactured the "genius Maestro" myth, protected their cash cow, and shamefully covered up for his crimes... arrogance of all the fanboys who wink-winked at what they knew was going on... and the ultimate arrogance of "one rule for us inner circle of culturati and another rule for the rest of you shleps..."

@photo161

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your many good points and well stated.

@spind

3 жыл бұрын

As anyone with a pair of ears knows, Levine was a great conductor. In fact, after his debut the concertmaster said that the Met orchestra hasn’t been so impressed with a conductor since Karajan conducted at the Met. You just sound bitter and envious.

Levine died in ignominy on March 9th, 2021 - Disgraced and unrepentant.

@snoopcat5745

3 жыл бұрын

And still loved by his fans who deny he ever did anything wrong.

political correctness ruined this man's life and quite a few others

@georgeboskovic2903

3 жыл бұрын

You deserve to be nominated for the Jimmy Saville award for looking away from child abuse.

@mensabs

3 жыл бұрын

@@georgeboskovic2903 I didn't know minors were involved. That is reprehensible and deserving of punishment.