New York, NY – NYPD Planning Heavy Police Presence At Controversial Opera Opening Of “The Death of Klinghoffer”

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    FILE - Alan Opie, playing Leon Klinghoffer (R) and Jesse Kovarksy, playing Omar perform during a dress rehearsal of John Adam's opera "The Death of Klinghoffer" at the ENO in London February 23, 2012. ReutersNew York, NY – Reps for New York’s Metropolitan Opera say that due to continued threats of protests, and possibly violence, they are expecting a heavy police presence at Monday’s opening of “The Death of Klinghoffer,” the controversial opera about the wheel-chair-bound Jewish New Yorker Leon Klinghoffer who was thrown to his death from the cruise ship the Achille Lauro by Palestinian terrorists in 1985.

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    NYPOST.com (http://bit.ly/1Dp3PBI) reports that Met director Peter Gelb said the theater has been inundated with threatening emails, calls, and letters alluding to Monday’s opening of the opera, which includes anti-Semitic language and often tells the story through the perspective of the terrorists.

    Gelb said critics who have sworn to prevent the opera from opening “are not silly; they are very angry.”

    One avowed critic, Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, who plans a 50-wheel chair protest outside the theater, said the opera contains “gratuitous anti-Semitism” that is “repeated and repeated.”

    “This is a game changer,” Wiesenfeld said.


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    lakewooder
    lakewooder
    9 years ago

    It is probably a good idea. I am sure many people won’t go if they see the hassle and the chance, however small, of danger.

    ayoyo
    ayoyo
    9 years ago

    The person responsible for letting this anti semitic trash to be performed at the met should be fired This isn’t germany ca. 1933 Art shmart , trying to get reportage at the expense of jews shouldn’t be allowed.

    wsbrgh
    wsbrgh
    9 years ago

    remember- the sponsors anonymity is a heavily guarded secret. NOT the case with Met’s other productions. Let’s prove to them that it’s not worth it.

    HankM
    HankM
    9 years ago

    What are we Arabs?

    Draye
    Draye
    9 years ago

    all these protests might make the trash sound interesting and pique curiousity

    shmielglassman
    shmielglassman
    9 years ago

    had it not been for these well meaning activists this show would have come and gone with the quiet wind – now with all the NOISE – attendance will boom ” controversy sells”