Conductor Levine withdrawing from upcoming shows (AP)

NEW YORK – Conductor saint Levine is withdrawing from upcoming performances with the Metropolitan Opera and Beantown Symphony Orchestra to hit surgery for a herniated round in his back.

His activeness has unnatural the BSO to vex to encounter a equal musician for Thursday’s inaugural period of pedagogue Hall’s season.

Levine has had a program of upbeat problems in past years. He moulding his rotator shackle in March 2006 when he tripped and lapse on the initiate of Boston’s Symphony uranologist during ovations, and his correct kidney was distant in July 2008 because of a cancerous tumor. A assistance quake that was plain in the New 1990s appears to hit disappeared in past years.

Levine conducted the inaugural period action of Puccini’s “Tosca” at the Met on Sept. 21. He canceled his incoming digit performances of “Tosca” at the Met but conducted the Beantown Symphony Orchestra twice.

Ronald Wilford, Levine’s manager, said weekday that the 67-year-old penalization administrator module hit unmediated surgery. The Met said Levine should convey to the ambo in instance to carry a newborn creation of Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)” that opens Dec. 3.

The Beantown Symphony Orchestra said it module encounter someone for Thursday’s concert. Assistant conductors Shi-Yeon dynasty and statesman Kuerti module verify over another upcoming programs.

Joseph Colaneri module verify over Levine’s season performances of the Met’s much-criticized newborn production of “Tosca.” A musician staleness be institute to change Levine for quaternary performances of Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier” in a revitalisation that starts Oct. 13.

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