Demonstrators claim that the production is hostile to Israel, sympathetic to terrorists, and feeds anti-Semitism.
JTA – As with many exclusive events, the Metropolitan Opera House’s Opening Night Gala on Monday had a few uninvited guests.
But these weren’t your typical party crashers.
Thousands of demonstrators gathered outside the Met chanting “Shame on the Met!” and “Say no to the show!” in protest of the Metropolitan Opera Company’s decision to produce the controversial opera “The Death of Klinghoffer.”
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The John Adams opera, which debuted in 1991 and is set to premiere at the Met on October 20, depicts the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro by Palestinian terrorists and the murder of Leon Klinghoffer, a 69-year-old Jewish-American passenger in a wheelchair.