New 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.
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.
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.
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.
What are we Arabs?
all these protests might make the trash sound interesting and pique curiousity
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”