The final performance of "Don Giovanni" with the Tanglewood Music Center fellows is Wednesday at 7:30, so there's still time to catch it if you love Mozart (or this opera) a tenth as much as James Levine does. Three years ago, this Boston Symphony music director was running rehearsals here — not for the current cast (Elliot Madore as Don Giovanni and Mark Van Arsdale as Don Ottavio are pictured HERE), which arrived this summer with roles memorized; probably not for the former fellows who learned from his fascinated micro-delving; but ultimately for himself.

He has thought long and deeply about "Don Giovanni": he can conduct women's lines while mouthing men's. He knows by heart the quicksilver patter of the servant Leporello in the sextet. A hesitant drop in dynamics, a sudden change to minor key, tells him Donna Anna is lying.

Suggestions to singers are worded positively: "It's vocally terrific. Maybe there should be a break here...," To Masetto, whose fiancée, Zerlina, is about to be seduced by Don Giovanni: "She's a hundred percent wrong, you're a hundred percent right — take advantage of it." To the conducting fellow (Wednesday's will be Christoph Altstaedt): "Look at the last place it's possible to breathe, and try it yourself."

Expect no mercy from the weather: consider Randy Houser's country music hit, number 8 on the charts: "I'm goin' out with my boots on."