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Met Opera cancels 'Klinghoffer' simulcast by Associated Press

NEW YORK " The Metropolitan Opera has canceled plans for a global simulcast to cinemas of John Adams' "The Death of Klinghoffer" amid objections it could stir anti-Semitic sentiments.The Live in HD broadcast was planned for Nov. 15.The opera depicts the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro (ah-KEE'-leh LOW'-roh) cruise ship by the Palestine Liberation Front in which a Jewish New Yorker, Leon Klinghoffer, was killed.T…

SOURCE: Boston Herald at 08:22AM on June 18, 2014

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