Met Opera’s James Levine to return in May after spinal injury

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Metropolitan Opera music director James Levine will return to the conducting podium in May 2013 – initially in a wheelchair – after a fall more than a year ago that left him partially paralyzed, the New York opera house said on Friday. Levine, 69, who has been the Met's music director since 1976, will conduct the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in May 2013, before leading three operas during the Met's 2013-14 season, the Met said in a statement. …