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The Death of Klinghoffer is an American opera, with music by John Adams to an English-language libretto by Alice Goodman. First produced in Brussels and New York in 1991, the opera is based on the hijacking of the passenger liner Achille Lauro by the Palestine Liberation Front in 1985, and the hijackers' murder of a 69-year-old Jewish-American ...
Mar 19, 2019 · Molqi reveals the death of Leon Klinghoffer. The hijackers surrender and the surviving passengers disembark at the port. Marilyn learns of her husband’s death.
Oct 21, 2014 · Oct. 21, 2014. One of the most wrenching moments in “The Death of Klinghoffer,” the 1991 opera by the composer John Adams and the librettist Alice Goodman, occurs during the final monologue by...
- Anthony Tommasini
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Oct 22, 2014 · “The Death of Klinghoffer,” John Adams’s perennially contentious opera about terrorism at sea, received its first Metropolitan Opera performance on October 20th, twenty-three years after its...
Leon Klinghoffer (September 24, 1916 – October 8, 1985) was an American man who was shot, killed and thrown overboard from the cruise ship Achille Lauro by members of the Palestinian Liberation Front who hijacked the ship in 1985.
Oct 30, 2014 · See it first. Then decide. That’s the Metropolitan Opera’s ad slogan for The Death of Klinghoffer, a controversial work by composer John Adams and librettist Alice Goodman that has been polarizing the public and inciting protest since 1991.
Oct 19, 2014 · The Metropolitan Opera’s staging of John Adams’s controversial 1991 work, “The Death of Klinghoffer,” has been drawing furious protests in advance of its Monday night premiere.
