Anti Semitic Opera Planned For New York Metropolitan Opera

Leon Klinghoffer

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This opera presents the takeover of the cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985 by Palestinian terrorists, and their murder of 69 year old, wheel-chair bound Leon Klinghoffer, as justified, not only by Palestinian grievances against Israel, but also by the alleged evil and exploitative actions of Jews against others around the world. The terrorists are humanized and presented as freedom fighters, who have been forced by Jewish and Zionist oppression to take extreme actions.
In the opera’s libretto, there are passages that defame the Jews as a people. For example, the principal terrorist says, “Wherever poor men are gathered, they can find Jews getting fat. You know how to cheat the simple, exploit the virgin, pollute where you have exploited, defame those you cheated, and break your own law with idolatry.”
At one stage, the terrorist leader says to Klinghoffer, “America is one big Jew.”

http://americanthinker.com/blog/2014/08/jewhatred_coming_to_lincoln_center.html

August 27, 2014
Jew-hatred coming to Lincoln Center
By Carol Brown

NY Met Opera Threatened By Labor Unions

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The storied but precarious institution could see its next season disrupted in the labor discord. The Met's general manager, Peter Gelb, warns that without union flexibility, the very existence of the world-famous, 130-year-old opera is at risk.
Well, if worst came to worst, at least the Met's singers and musicians could make a go of it at the New York City Opera. No, wait, it shut its doors for the last time last year.
It doesn't take an opera aficionado to realize that the 21st century isn't the 19th, and opera is an embattled art form. Unfortunately, the Met is locking horns with a force, the unions, that has proven adept at helping to drive struggling industries into the ground.
A New York Times editorial recently noted that orchestra members, who on average make $200,000 a year, get 16 weeks off with pay. The American Federation of Musicians Local 802 shot back that it is really only 10 weeks of guaranteed time off with pay. Touche.
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Only unions would complain that an opera manager is spending too much on opera and not enough on overtime pay and pension benefits.
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It is working to preserve a demanding art form that represents one of the high points of Western civilization.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0714/lowry071614.php3#.U-sfwN0--yM

Jewish World Review

July 16, 2014 / 18 Tammuz, 5774
Union drama at the Metropolitan Opera
By Rich Lowry