Alice Goodman

Protesters at the Metropolitan Opera

Was the Metropolitan Opera right to stage the allegedly anti-Semitic The Death of Klinghoffer?

Arts

Is John Adams’ opera The Death of Klinghoffer anti-semitic? If it is, does that mean it should never be staged? Where is the line between artistic license and political propaganda when a work is this controversial?

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