Longtime Metropolitan Opera conductor James Levine has denied allegations of sexual misconduct and says he wants to resume his work "with full concentration and inspiration." "As anyone who truly knows me will attest, I have not lived my life as an oppressor or an aggressor." The opera suspended Levine on Sunday after the Times published accounts from three of the accusers who say that Levine sexually abused them when they were teenagers. The opera appointed Robert J. Cleary, a partner at the Proskauer Rose law firm, to investigate the accusations against Levine as it weighs his future. "The examples of instigating sex with a minor, physical abuse using physical pain leading to break down crying, all happened.

Source: Fox News December 08, 2017 17:26 UTC