captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. dare yourself to play the first three notes in a speed and drive and force and power and excitement that you really think they should have. rose: the maestro is back. james levine is music director of the metropolitan opera. after missing two seasons due to a spinal cord injury, he returned to the met last month to conduct one of his favorite operas mozart s cosi fantutti. here s a look. (cheers and applause) (cheers and applause) rose: james levine has been a major force at the met for more than 40 years, conducting some 2,500 performances and shaping the way opera sounds. the new york times calls him one of the greatest living conductors. this season he will also conduct a new production of falstat. i m pleased to have him back at this table. welcome. thanks, charlie, it s great to see you. rose: you look great! i feel great. rose: we ll talk ab
captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. dare yourself to play the first three notes in a speed and drive and force and power and excitement that you really think they should have. rose: the maestro is back. james levine is music director of the metropolitan opera. after missing two seasons due to a spinal cord injury, he returned to the met last month to conduct one of his favorite operas mozart s cosi fantutti. here s a look. (cheers and applause) (cheers and applause) rose: james levine has been a major force at the met for more than 40 years, conducting some 2,500 performances and shaping the way opera sounds. the new york times calls him one of the greatest living conductors. this season he will also conduct a new production of falstat. i m pleased to have him back at this table. welcome. thanks, charlie, it s great to see you. rose: you look great! i feel great. rose: we ll talk ab
down. rose: james levine for the hour. next. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. dare yourself to play the first three notes in a speed and drive and force and power and excitement that you really think they should have. rose: the maestro is back. james levine is music director of the metropolitan opera. after missing two seasons due to a spinal cord injury, he returned to the met last month to conduct one of his favorite operas mozart s cosi fantutti. here s a look. (cheers and applause) (cheers and applause) rose: james levine has been a major force at the met for more than 40 years, conducting some 2,500 performances and shaping the way opera sounds. the new york times calls him one of the greatest living conductors. this season he will also conduct a new production of falstat. i m pleased to have him back at this table. welcome. thanks, charlie, it s great to see you. rose: you lo
comes back and i m able to work again and my colleagues tell me and i can hear from the audience that they re not relating it to the way i was before i had to stop because of the fall but to years before when i really had the vitality and i wasn t in any pain rose: you ll feel it? there s no doubt about it. i just don t pain. i get a twinge here or there and it s gone but i don t have anything nothing like a chronic pain anywhere. rose: did you doubt you might not ever stand there or be there again? when you re lying in a hospital bed and look down at your legs and can t move them, you think, yeah, you could conduct with my upper body but i wouldn t have been able to conduct without feeling some kind of flow through the whole because you conduct with your body on some level or the other even though it is possible to conduct just fine sitting down. many people do. but luckily the returns started to come and the surgery held and the nerves began to come back, ne
again and my colleagues tell me and i can hear from the audience that they re not relating it to the way i was before i had to stop because of the fall but to years before when i really had the vitality and i wasn t in any pain rose: you ll feel it? there s no doubt about it. i just don t pain. i get a twinge here or there and it s gone but i don t have anything nothing like a chronic pain anywhere. rose: did you doubt you might not ever stand there or be there again? when you re lying in a hospital bed and look down at your legs and can t move them, you think, yeah, you could conduct with my upper body but i wouldn t have been able to conduct without feeling some kind of flow through the whole because you conduct with your body on some level or the other even though it is possible to conduct just fine sitting down. many people do. but luckily the returns started to come and the surgery held and the nerves began to come back, nerves do it on their own time but