The Passion of Leon Klinghoffer (I/II)

A preview of what the MET HD audiences are not supposed to see.

In 2012, Agustín Blanco-Bazán, international lawyer and press correspondent of Mundo Clásico in the UK, reviewed the London premiere of John Adams´s The Death of Klinghoffer at the English National Opera [to read this article]. Following the recent cancellation of the Metropolitan Opera House simulcast of the same staging for November of this year, this article addresses both the frustrations of the worldwide audience now prevented from experiencing the work in cinemas and the apprehensions of those still lobbying to see it banned from the MET repertoire. Declarations by Abraham Foxman and Peter Gelb are quoted from the Huffington Post and the New York Times.