After missing summer dates, James Levine back for Boston Symphony Orchestra’s new season

James Levine back for Boston Symphony’s new season

BOSTON — James Levine (luh-VYNE’) is expected to be back leading the Boston Symphony Orchestra when it begins its fall season next month.

The conductor had back surgery in the spring and missed the orchestra’s summer series at Tanglewood.

The orchestra said in a statement Tuesday that Levine is scheduled to return for the season opening gala on Oct. 2, and for the first full week of the season starting Oct. 7.

This will be Levine’s seventh season as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He is also music director of New York’s Metropolitan Opera.

His first post-surgery performance will be Wagner’s “Das Rheingold,” which opens the Met season on Sept. 27.