NEW YORK (WABC) -- Thousands of demonstrators protested opening night at the Metropolitan Opera. They say the opera "The Death of Klinghoffer" glorifies Palestinian terrorists. Some people left the ...

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Statements from the Klinghoffer family will appear in the programs. Leon Klinghoffer’s daughters, Lisa and Ilsa Klinghoffer, criticized the opera at its premiere, as they felt that the opera treated ...

(Reuters) — New York’s Metropolitan Opera is bracing for its most tumultuous opening in decades on Monday as protesters get ready to picket “The Death of Klinghoffer,” the John Adams opera about the ...

The Met is putting on an opera called The Death of Klinghoffer. Leon Klinghoffer was an elderly Jewish man with physical disabilities that necessitated using a wheel-chair. He was on a cruise in the ...

A gripping combination of high art and documentary realism, this 2003 feature by Penny Woolcock adapts John Adams’s opera about the Palestinian hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro off the coast ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Ripped from headlines about the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship, John Adams' opera "The Death of Klinghoffer" has had a troubled history since its premiere in 1991.