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NY Metropolitan Opera cancels global simulcast to cinemas of ‘Klinghoffer’
Original Publication Date: June 17, 2014 10:02PM
Publication Updated: January 8, 2025 10:53PM
NEW YORK, N.Y. – The Metropolitan Opera has cancelled plans for a global simulcast to cinemas of John Adam’s “The Death of Klinghoffer” amid objections it could stir anti-Semitic sentiments.
The Live in HD broadcast was planned for Nov. 15.
The opera depicts the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship by the Palestine Liberation Front in which a Jewish New Yorker, Leon Klinghoffer, was killed.
The Met made its decision after discussions with the Anti-Defamation League.
The League praised the Met’s decision, saying while the opera wasn’t anti-Semitic it feared it could create anti-Israeli sentiments in foreign countries.
Adams blasted the decision, saying the opera “in no form condones or promotes violence, terrorism or anti-Semitism.”
The work will be performed at the opera house as planned in autumn.
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