NYPD and protestors will congregate in front of Lincoln Center for the premiere of The Metropolitan Opera's latest staging of John Adams' controversial (and equally brilliant) The Death of Klinghoffer. Joining in their voice, too, is opera advocate and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Backing Giuliani will also be former governor George Pataki and Democratic Congressman Eliot Engel. Giuliani, a longtime opera fan who started an opera club at Brooklyn's Bishop Loughlin High School and feels that Leon Klinghoffer is not adequately represented in the performance.
The Met's upcoming production, set to premiere at Lincoln Center in New York City tonight, October 20, has caught some serious heat in recent weeks, citing that Adams' masterpiece is anti-Semitic and insensitive.
For Leon Klinghoffer, who was murdered and thrown off the cruise ship Achille Lauro by four hijackers from the Palestinian Liberation Front, the production shies away from condemning the actions of the terrorists and, instead, portrays them in a, well, "more forgiving light."
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