Protestors Rally Against John Adams's 'The Death of Klinghoffer' at the Met - Dub it 'Nazi Opera'

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Several hundred protesters gathered outside the Met before the performance of Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” for a noisy demonstration calling for the company to cancel its production of John Adams’s 1991 opera, “The Death of Klinghoffer,” which is to have its Met premiere next month. That opera depicts a 1985 cruise ship hijacking by members of the Palestine Liberation Front, and the killing of a disabled Jewish American passenger, Leon Klinghoffer.

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The protesters on Monday held up signs that said “Metropolitan Nazi Opera,” “Stop the Hate — Defund Met Opera” and, in a question aimed at Peter Gelb, the general manager of the Met, “Gelb Are You Taking Terror $$$?” One speaker called for the opera’s sets to be “burned to the ground.”

Former Gov. George E. Pataki, Representative Eliot L. Engel of New York, State Assemblyman Dov Hikind and State Assemblyman David I. Weprin were among the officials who denounced the opera and the Met for showing it. “This is the wrong show at the wrong time,” Mr. Pataki said. A letter denouncing the opera, by the father of Daniel Pearl, a journalist slain by terrorists in 2002, was read aloud.

ttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/arts/music/protests-over-klinghoffer-planned-for-mets-opening-night.html?ref=arts

Interesting times.