Its not easy to get New Yorkers to care about the opera. On October 20, though, 400 people gathered outside the Metropolitan Opera in Manhattan to protest the opening of John Adams's The Death of Klinghoffer . The opera is based on the brutal murder of Leon Klinghoffer, who in 1985 was shot and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by Palestinian Liberation Front members who had hijacked the cruise ship upon which Klinghoffer and his were celebrating their 36th wedding anniversary. Since it first opened in 1991, the opera has drawn charges of anti-Semitism. But this week's protests looked...
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