BIRTHPLACE Cincinnati, Ohio

MET HISTORY Since his 1971 company debut leading Tosca, he has conducted nearly 2,500 operatic performances at the Met—more than any other conductor in the company’s history. Of the 83 operas he has led here, 13 were company premieres (including Stiffelio, I Lombardi, I Vespri Siciliani, La Cenerentola, Benvenuto Cellini, Porgy and Bess, Erwartung, Moses und Aron, Idomeneo and La Clemenza di Tito). He also led the world premieres of Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles and Harbison’s The Great Gatsby.

THIS SEASON Opening Night new production premiere of Tosca, the new production of Les Contes d’Hoffmann, and revivals of Simon Boccanegra and Lulu. He appears at Carnegie Hall with the MET Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra and at Carnegie’s Weill and Zankel Halls with the MET Chamber Ensemble. Maestro Levine returns to the Boston Symphony Orchestra for his sixth season as Music Director, conducting world premieres by Williams, Lieberson, and Harbison, the United States premiere of Carter’s flute concerto, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 7; he also makes his debut with the Staatskapelle Berlin (Mahler Third) in March, conducts two performances of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Cincinnati Opera for its 90th anniversary in June, and gives a vocal master class for the Marilyn Horne Foundation at Zankel Hall in January.