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Nurit Greenger

Anti-Semitic-anti-Israel “opera” at the Metropolitan Opera

Metropolitan Opera to Stage Dreadful Anti-Israel, Anti-Semitic Work, the Death of Klinghoffer, an anti-Jewish and anti-Israel “opera.” We have learned that the Met had scheduled for the 2014-2015 season its first-ever performances of John Adams’s “opera” The Death of Klinghoffer. Mediocre music is the least of the work’s problems. Even more serious is a tendentious story line and an inflammatory libretto that falsely maligns Israel and the Jewish people.

Reminder: Leon Klinghoffer was a murder Victim. Confined to a wheelchair, he was shot by Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) terrorists and his body thrown off the Italian cruise ship, Achille Lauro…

When people vilify Israel they vilify every Jew!

John Adams the opera maker
John Adams the opera maker

I took my time to scold the Met and here is the exchange from bottom to top:

My Letter to the metropolitan:

Nicole Halton,

Thank you for taking the time to reply.

Mr. Adams claims that in writing the opera he tried to understand the hijackers and their motivations? Does he need to do that? Their ONE and ONLY one motivation is killing Jews and point blank killing. Do you have to write a political opera about the subject and in it vilifies Israel and Jews and give a plug to terrorists? To where have we arrived in our moral equivalence? The Met, the composers have lost their rational mind?

Terrorists’ life is killing; Moslem terrorists life objective is first to kill Jews and then all other infidels. Therefore, it is an endless conflict, we, in the west enflame by our unwillingness to see the truth, the facts, and the reality! Islam is an ideology wrapped in religion its ONLY goal is to dominate the world and the West’s foolish enlightenment is analyzing this clear subject that needs no analysis? How absurd?!

And writing an OPERA about it is doubly absurd!

A disabled man was thrown overboard and an opera was written about it? Perhaps Mr. Adams should write an opera about the close to 150,000 innocent civilians Bashar Assad, the dictator of Syria, has murdered thus far and analyze his murderous malevolent brain?!

Staging this opera is a huge mistake; HD it, to possibly millions of viewers, is doubly huge mistake. The least you can do is cancel the HD showing in the many theatres process.

Will the Met stage and broadcast an opera vilifying any other ethnic group! NO WAY! But, Jews, it has become a habit, humanity’s genetic disease, which, only 70 years ago has led to perpetrating the Holocaust purposely murdering 11 million innocent people, 6 million innocent Jews, among them 1 million children, 3 million Catholics and others! The Met is now complicit in incitement against Jews! What a terrible thing when “art” is used as a cover for hate.

Your reply leaves much to be desire and I ask again, after reading Myron Kaplan, Senior Research Analyst for CAMERA letter, please reconsider your actions.

Sincerely,
Nurit Greenger Los Angeles, CA

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Date: Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 9:34 AM
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Dear Nurit,

Thank you for contacting us.

The Metropolitan Opera has championed the work of John Adams, one of America’s greatest living composers. This will be the third of his operas that the Met has presented over the last seven seasons. The Met is committed to presenting the finest works across the operatic repertory, as well as increasing the accessibility and relevance of the art form.

The Death of Klinghoffer is an opera about a terrible incident that has become part of a pattern of violence that in the ensuing decades continues to repeat itself. Mr. Adams has said that in writing the opera he tried to understand the hijackers and their motivations, and to look for humanity in the terrorists, as well as in their victims. Tom Morris, the director of the Met’s new production, believes that the opera’s most important contribution is in providing an opportunity for the audience to wrestle with the almost unanswerable questions that arise from this seemingly endless conflict.

Since this opera dramatizes a horrific act of violence, the Met acknowledges that some members of its audience may disagree with the decision to present this work. However, the Met believes that in staging it, audiences are being given the opportunity to hear one of the best operas of the late 20th century.

Thank you for taking the time to share your concerns with us.

Sincerely,
Nicole Halton
Met Opera Customer Relations
The Metropolitan Opera | Lincoln Center | New York, NY 10023
Phone: 212.362.6000 | Fax: 212.870.7695 | metopera.org

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Name: Nurit Greenger
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What sick mind writes an opera about a terror attack and what sick mind at the Met decides to produce it?

About the Author
Nurit is an advocate for Jews, Israel, the United States and the Free World in general and sees Israel and the United States, equally, as the last two forts of true democratic freedom. Since 2006, she has been writing about events in these two countries. From Southern California, Nurit believes that if you stand for nothing, you will fall for anything.