![]() The Met has also released James Levine: Celebrating 40 Years at the Met, two box sets of DVDs and CDs capturing 22 of his nearly 2,500 live opera performances. Levine is the subject of a new PBS documentary, James Levine: America's Maestro, as well as James Levine: 40 Years at the Metropolitan Opera, a coffeetable book documenting some of the 2,500 performances he has conducted at the Met. So when the time came that I was actually standing there conducting, I remember feeling amazingly at home." And I think the reason was I had really grown up concentrating on music and on opera, and particularly on the Met. "I kept thinking I should be nervous, but I wasn't. "I was very excited, but I wasn't nervous," he tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. But, he says, he still remembers that first night on the stage. Since then, Levine has conducted works by Verdi, Mozart, Wagner, Rossini, Stravinsky, Debussy and countless others during his 40-year career with the Met. It was also the 27-year-old Levine's debut performance at the Met. ![]() The occasion was a festival performance of Tosca. On June 5, 1971, James Levine lifted his baton and stepped up on the stage at The Metropolitan Opera.
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