article_snippet: The controversy has echoes of a furor last year at the Metropolitan Opera which staged John Adams' '
article_snippet: The Death of Klinghoffer,' about the wheelchair-bound Jewish American Leon Klinghoffer who was killed by Palestinian hijackers of a cruise ship in 1985.
article_snippet: Protesters rallied outside and several disrupted performances in part because Palestinian characters in the Metropolitan Opera make anti-Semitic remarks as Adams tries to set the context for the killing.