Met Opera Boosts Pay for Conductor Levine to $2.1 Million

James Levine, the Metropolitan Opera’s music director, earned $2.1 million in 2010, up 39 percent from a year earlier and more than the compensation of the general manager, Peter Gelb, according to the Met’s 2010-2011 tax return.

Levine’s pay was “related to the increasing success of our media program, including amounts attributable to prior years,” said Peter Clark, a Met spokesman, in an e-mail.