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Terrorists Push Elderly Jew Overboard in ‘Klinghoffer’: Review
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The opera “The Death of Klinghoffer” has lyrical beauty, ear-caressing orchestration, and an incendiary subject matter. It still doesn’t quite fire up.
A new production at English National Opera in London proves John Adams’s 1991 work to be an intractable and undramatic creation.