{"id":135877,"date":"2017-12-03T22:08:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T03:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=135877"},"modified":"2017-12-03T22:08:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T03:08:22","slug":"met-opera-suspends-ties-to-conductor-following-sex-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/03\/met-opera-suspends-ties-to-conductor-following-sex-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Met opera suspends ties to conductor following sex charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_135882\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-135882\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/James_Levine_2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135882\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/James_Levine_2013.jpg\" alt=\"Levine in the orchestra pit of the Metropolitan Opera House in 2013 (Photo By ralph and jenny, CC BY 2.0)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/James_Levine_2013.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/James_Levine_2013-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/James_Levine_2013-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-135882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Levine in the orchestra pit of the Metropolitan Opera House in 2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=31741443\">(Photo By <\/a>ralph<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=31741443\"> and <\/a>jenny<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=31741443\">, CC BY 2.0)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>New York&#8217;s Metropolitan Opera says it&#8217;s suspending its relationship with longtime conductor James Levine pending an investigation into multiple allegations of sexual misconduct against him.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released Sunday, the opera company said Levine will not be involved in any Met activities, &#8220;including conducting scheduled performances at the Met this season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Met also says it&#8217;s hiring a former U.S. attorney to lead a &#8220;full and complete investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The action comes a day after the New York Post first reported that one of Levine&#8217;s accusers claimed he had sexual contact with Levine as a teenager. The New York Times on Sunday reported similar accounts from two other men with Levine.<\/p>\n<p>Met officials said in an earlier statement that Levine has denied the charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York&#8217;s Metropolitan Opera says it&#8217;s suspending its relationship with longtime conductor James Levine pending an investigation into multiple allegations &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":135882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[36812,36810,36811],"class_list":["post-135877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-conductor-james-levine","tag-met-opera-suspends-ties-to-conductor-following-sex-charges","tag-new-yorks-metropolitan-opera","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}