Anyone paying attn to Met Opera protests tonight?

[SleeplessinSoCal]

http://huff.to/1FtvDXl

Sort of insanity going on over a 1991 opera twice (91 & 03) performed in NYC at BAM as well as many companies worldwide. Yet this time the opera is suddenly more antisemetic than ever - even though Klinghoffer is clearly the victim and terrorists are the bad guys.

Not according to some protesting:

"On Monday, Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, is expected to join hundreds of protesters and 100 symbolic wheelchairs at a rally outside the opera's Met debut at Lincoln Center in midtown Manhattan.

Last month, a crowd demonstrating against the opera jeered operagoers in evening dress as they made their way into the Met's season gala opening, and the opera company has scrapped plans to broadcast "Klinghoffer" internationally.

"The problem is this is not gutter-level anti-Semitism," said Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, a trustee of the City University of New York who is helping organize the rally. The Met was "the very highest level of American culture," he said.

"The history of the Weimar Republic shows us when this type of racism and anti-Semitism reaches this level of the culture, society is really troubled," he said, referring to Germany just before the rise of Nazism in the 1930's

The opera's libretto by Alice Goodman and its score by Adams have been closely scrutinized, and critics have come to divergent opinions."

[SleeplessinSoCal]

1. I guess this non reply is a resounding "No".

It's triggered a lot of discussion among my facebook friends.

New York Times review:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/22/arts/music/john-adams-death-of-klinghoffer-metropolitan-opera-debut.html?_r=0

video: http://nyti.ms/1wmfgG8