The Death of Klinghoffer ***
By: David ShewardOperas rarely make headline news, but the Metropolitan Opera's debut of John Adams' rich and complex 1991 work The Death of Klinghoffer has become an Alan Opie, Jesse Kovarskyinternational sensation, not so much for what happens onstage, but for the controversy it has ignited. Inspired by the real-life terrorist incident in which an American-Jewish tourist was murdered abroad a hijacked Italian pleas…