Protesters decry Metropolitan Opera’s ‘Death of Klinghoffer’
Protesters descended on the Metropolitan Opera on Monday, hours before curtains rise on the controversial production “The Death of Klinghoffer.” Demonstrators decried the Met’s decision to stage the...
View ArticleDe Blasio blasts Giuliani for protesting ‘Klinghoffer’
Mayor de Blasio blasted predecessor Rudy Giuliani for leading protests against the opera “The Death of Klinghoffer.” The current mayor said it’s not “the American way” to protest against objectionable...
View Article‘Death of Klinghoffer’ ends with standing ovation despite protest
NEW YORK — A Metropolitan Opera performance of a show critics say glorifies Palestinian terrorists has ended with a standing ovation drowning out scattered boos. Politicians including former New York...
View ArticleRage and protests at Met opening of ‘Klinghoffer’
Hundreds of protesters shouting “Shame on the Met” swarmed Monday’s premiere of “The Death of Klinghoffer” as the opera opened amid a firestorm of controversy that spilled into the theater...
View ArticleTerror slaying of Leon Klinghoffer shocked the world
Before ISIS, 9/11 and Lockerbie, the slaying of Jewish-American businessman Leon Klinghoffer stood as the most shocking act of terror carried out against an innocent US citizen. Klinghoffer, a...
View Article‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ ignites passion outside, but none onstage
It’s often said that opera is a dying art form, but you wouldn’t know it from the emotions flaring outside Lincoln Center last night. The occasion was The Metropolitan Opera’s...
View ArticleFlattering the Met: Critics too kind to pathetic Opera
The thousands of protesters who greeted Monday’s opening of John Adams’ “The Death of Klinghoffer” were paying the Metropolitan Opera a great compliment: They were taking the Met seriously. In...
View Article‘Klinghoffer’ actress compares show to ‘Schindler’s List’
A performer in the Met’s controversial opera “The Death of Klinghoffer” defended the work on Tuesday — insisting the cast is actually fighting anti-Semitism with the production. “To me, this...
View ArticleA fight at the opera
Mayor de Blasio has a gift for clarifying conflicts. His muddled thinking usually puts him on the wrong side, which helps the rest of us come to the right conclusion....
View ArticleMet GM: ‘Death of Klinghoffer’ proves protesters wrong
Monday night’s premiere of “The Death of Klinghoffer” was not one of the easiest nights in the history of The Metropolitan Opera, but it was one of the most important....
View ArticleJewish ‘Klinghoffer’ actor speaks: ‘Terrorists are human’
It isn’t easy killing Leon Klinghoffer every night, over and over, in front of an audience of 4,000 — but it’s been an eye-opening experience for the Jewish-American actor who plays...
View ArticleMetropolitan Opera romanticizes one NYer’s murder
In 1985, New Yorker Leon Klinghoffer, 69, and his wife Marilyn took a cruise to celebrate their 36th wedding anniversary. Leon never came back: Four members of the Palestine Liberation Front hijacked...
View ArticleJewish leaders demand ‘Klinghoffer’ opera canceled
The Metropolitan Opera’s decision to cancel a live broadcast of an opera about the terrorist murder of Leon Klinghoffer doesn’t go far enough — and the whole show should be scrapped, Jewish leaders...
View ArticleThe Met Opera’s new musical celebration ‘promoting bigotry’
This is not just offensive. It’s dangerous. The month after we observed the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, the Metropolitan Opera, one of the world’s most prestigious cultural...
View ArticleMet Opera’s uncivil ‘art’
Judea Pearl is the father of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter murdered by al Qaeda in 2002. Below are the remarks he prepared for a protest at Monday night’s opening of the Metropolitan...
View ArticleNYPD to guard Metropolitan during ‘Klinghoffer’ debut
Cops will guard the opening of a controversial opera about terrorists following months of protests and even death threats. There will be a “heavy police presence” for “The Death of Klinghoffer” at The...
View ArticleMusical murder of a Jew
Tonight, the curtain will rise on the Metropolitan Opera’s production of John Adams’ “The Death of Klinghoffer.” It’s subject is the 1985 murder by Palestinian terrorists of a wheelchair-bound, elderly...
View ArticleOpera v. truth: The fetid fouls of ‘Death of Klinghoffer’
I love opera. For almost three years, I regularly contributed to NPR’s “At the Opera.” I attend the Metropolitan Opera House as often as I can. But the decision to stage “The Death of Klinghoffer”...
View Article‘Death of Klinghoffer’ daughters’ criticism featured in Playbill
The daughters of terrorism victim Leon Klinghoffer will put their criticism of an opera about their dad’s death into the show’s program. Lisa and Ilsa Klinghoffer have always opposed “The Death of...
View ArticleProtesters decry Metropolitan Opera’s ‘Death of Klinghoffer’
Protesters descended on the Metropolitan Opera on Monday, hours before curtains rise on the controversial production “The Death of Klinghoffer.” Demonstrators decried the Met’s decision to stage the...
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