MetOpera: The Death of Klinghoffer

John Adams' The Death of Klinghoffer, performed as part of the Metropolitan Opera's 2014-2015 season captured live in HD on the New York stage. Conducted by David Robertson.

"In what many John Adams admirers consider his greatest operatic composition, this new production takes place almost 30 years after the events chronicled in his meditative opus about the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship. Klinghoffer overwhelmed audiences when it premiered just a few years after the tragic incident; now it finally arrives at the Met—the third work by Adams (Nixon in China) to be staged here in the last seven years. The dreamlike production of director Tom Morris (War Horse) balances the opera’s poetic libretto and intense dramatic narrative. Paulo Szot stars in the leading role." (MetOpera)

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