Powerful 'Klinghoffer' Premiere Starts With Protests, Ends With Cheers by Jeremy Gerard

Police barricades surrounded the plaza at Lincoln Center, helicopters buzzed overhead and several hundred protesters, at one point led by former mayor Rudy Giuliani, denounced the Metropolitan Opera on Monday evening for presenting The Death Of Klinghoffer. Brandishing placards that read "Shame On Peter Gelb" " a reference to the Met's general manager " and "The Met Opera Glorifies Terrorism," the marchers sang "H…

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