![]() The detective from the department in Lake Forest, Illinois, first contacted the opera in October 2016 and said she was investigating an allegation made by a New York man, Ashok Pai, who reported that Levine sexually abused him in Illinois when he was 16. The first report of the allegations, in the New York Post, was published not long after the performance. As music director emeritus, Levine was still conducting and had been scheduled to lead upcoming productions, including a planned New Year's Eve gala featuring Puccini's Tosca. He conducted Verdi's Requiem Saturday - a live, global radio broadcast that could well prove to be his last Met appearance. ![]() The opera company said after the report Sunday that it was suspending its relationship with Levine, its music director from 1976 through 2016. The Met was in crisis mode Monday after The New York Times published interviews with three men who said that Levine, 74, had sexually abused them when they were teenagers. ![]() NEW YORK (AP) - A big question remains after renowned conductor James Levine was suspended from the Metropolitan Opera amid accusations of sexual abuse: Why did it take so long for the company to act after it was informed by police that he had been accused of sexually abusing a teenage boy?
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