Sounds like the plot for Mel Brook's The Producers.
Posted on 06/25/2014 3:39:24 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
“I will set no base thing before mine eyes; I hate the doing of things crooked; it shall not cleave unto me.” (Psalms 101:3) he New York Metropolitan Opera has decided to cancel the simultaneous broadcast of controversial opera “The Death of Klinghoffer” during its upcoming season but has agreed to host the show in the upcoming season.
The American opera, by composer John Adams and librettist Alice Goodman, portrays the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro passenger liner by the Palestine Liberation Front, during which Jewish-American hostage Leon Klinghoffer was murdered and thrown overboard. The English-language opera has been controversial since its first performances in Brussels and New York in 1991.
On October 7, 1985, four PLF militants hijacked the Achille Lauro liner off Egypt. Holding the passengers and crew hostage, they directed the vessel to sail to Tartus, Syria, and demanded the release of 50 Palestinians then in Israeli prisons. When the ship was refused entry to the port at Tartus, the hijackers killed the wheelchair-bound Klinghoffer. The ship then returned to Egypt and the hijackers abandoned the liner after two days of negotiations, in exchange for safe passage. The four were ultimately arrested in Italy.
The events inspired several dramatizations, including the opera. In particular, the opera was controversial for its sympathetic portrayal of the hijackers and their grievances. Adams, Goodman and director Peter Sellars repeatedly claimed that they were trying to give equal voice to both Israelis and Palestinians with respect to the political background.
Following the New York premiere of the opera, Klinghoffer’s two daughters, Ilsa and Lisa, expressed their dissatisfaction. “We are outraged at the exploitation of our parents and the coldblooded murder of our father as the centerpiece of a production that appears to us to be anti-Semitic.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breakingisraelnews.com ...
I can understand if one wishes to produce such garbage, but anybgovt subsidies should not be used... For any srt
T
They do not know how many Jews live in NYC.
I can hardly wait for the sequel:
“The Death of KINGObama”
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
..................
Well, why not. It's the Met, after all. Hope a few donors reconsider, but that's a personal choice. Will this temper liberal's condemnation of David Koch, a big donor.
Darryl Strawberry?
So when will an elite, artsy-fartsy type decide to make an opera based on The Protocols of The Elders of Zion, and the Met will produce it - just to pander to the elite trash at The New York Times?
Gee, anti-semitism (or anti-Christian) plays, displays, writings in the New York City “cultural” world! Who would have thunk it was possible?
Now with a commie mayor and a marxist-led city council, it is going to get worse.
You get who you elect. New York liberal Jews are among the worst enemies of Judaism in the US (and enemies of America) are, and I say this as a proud Jewish American who knows who our real internal enemies are.
Next, the Met will produce an opera entitled: “Hitler: The Misunderstood Man”. Lead song “Springtime for Hitler and Germany” and a cast of “Good Germans” (funded by George Soros and his fellow KAPOS; Penny Pritzker; Ben & Jerry - oops, they fund the commies, sorry).
Welcome to the Big Apple, where “Red Apple” means “Red-led Rotten Apple”.
Well cool....since it’s MOSTLY rich Jews who support the ARTS and get TAX WRITE-OFFS for “Giving to CHARITY”....Charity my ASS...the ARTS should NOT be a TAX HAVEN!! Churches....Synagogues yes....Arts...NO!
Sounds like the plot for Mel Brook's The Producers.
Doesn’t matter. It’s offensive if one Jew lives in New York or a million.
Problem is: They support the Met, will they do so now?
Don’t care. I’m not Jewish - and I’m offended.
Well, well, wouldn’t you know it: Peter Gelb, General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera and the guy who chose and defends this most awful and offensive travesty in opera history, is the son of Arthur Gelb, former managing editor of The New York Times. The apple does not fall far from the tree. Anyone who reads the New York Times understands the extreme bias of the New York Times against Israel, in the way they cover stories, the photos they choose, the headlines they write, the mistaken claims and glaring omissions.
And donations for New York City’s liberal Jews will fund this pile of crap.
Oh the trials and tribulations of Peter Gelb. After showing what a “good Jew” he is by scheduling this opera, he was forced to withdraw it from the HD broadcasts seen in theaters around the world, by the owners of the theater company who didn’t want any sort of trouble ( one of their theaters had been recently shot up by some psychotic in Kansas).
So now Peter Gelb is being roundly excoriated by the liberal press (including The New York Times) and bloggers as the father of all cowards, spineless, a tyrannical censor who is depriving opera-lovers all over the world of an opportunity to hear this “masterpiece.” Sob sob.
Can’t say I feel sorry for him.
“sympathetic portrayal of the hijackers and their grievances”
The shot an old man in a wheel chair. You have got to be kidding.
I share your dismay.
I’ve long been thankful, in a way for that movie (the
Springtime one) as it forestalled any other.
Also, I’ve been reviewing classic opera plots, and I
don’t see anything remotely so detached from reality
and malicious.
[leaving out Wagner, I susppose, but his were all
mythology]
This is NOT an anti-semitic opera. Repeat NOT. Don’t buy the hype.
Did you see the opera? Listen to it? Read the libretto? This is NOT anti-semitic.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.