Achille Lauro

Opera: An Imperfect, Important ‘Death of Klinghoffer’

The basis of the piece at the Metropolitan Opera is the 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro by members of the Palestine Liberation Front. When the group’s demands were not immediately met, they retaliated by shooting disabled Jewish-American passenger Leon Klinghoffer and dumping his body overboard.

By James Jorden

In Defense of ‘Klinghoffer’

The real meaning of 'Klinghoffer' is in the music, a form uniquely capable of expressing complexity of emotion, and it is not anti-Semitism.

By James Jorden

Peter Gelb Lacks Both Balls and a Moral Compass

Well, I am not buying tickets to the The Death of Klinghoffer for the next season. In 2003 I saw the Brooklyn Academy of Music production of the terrorist saga, which was so appallingly amoral that I forced myself through to the end as a sort of ethical discipline. Worse than amoral, it was tedious.

By Marty Peretz

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