One of the dismissed claims centered on statements that Peter Gelb, the Met’s general manager, made after The New York Times and New York Post published articles in 2017 in which several men accused Mr. Levine of abusing them as teenagers or young men.

Mr. Gelb told The Times then that the Met was awaiting the outcome of an investigation it had commissioned, and made reference to “a tragedy for anyone whose life has been affected.” He later wrote to the Met’s supporters, calling the period “a sad moment in the company’s history and a tragedy for anyone whose life may have been affected.”

Mr. Levine’s lawsuit claimed those statements were defamatory.

Justice Masley disagreed, writing: “The reasonable interpretation of those statements by an average reader in the whole context is that, true or false, defendants were sympathetic to anyone negatively affected or harmed in connection with the accusations; that is, the situation was ‘trag[ic]’ whether the accusers were harmed by alleged conduct or Levine and the Met, Levine’s longtime employer, were harmed by false accusations in the press.”

She also dismissed the claims that two other statements were defamatory on the grounds that they were made by the Met’s lawyer in response to Mr. Levine’s lawsuit.

One centered on the statement by the lawyer, Bettina B. Plevan, that the Met had conducted “an in-depth investigation” of Mr. Levine “that uncovered credible and corroborated evidence of sexual misconduct during his time at the Met, as well as earlier.” The other was her statement that the Met had made Mr. Levine music director emeritus “when it became obvious that Levine was no longer physically capable of carrying out his duties as music director.” (The company had announced the change in his position in 2016, when Mr. Levine was 72 and having complications related to his Parkinson’s disease.)