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…arts & entertainment High Drama Over Klinghoffer Opera Metropolitan Opera's move fuels lofty debate about the limits of art. Stewart Ain I New York Jewish Week ohn Adams' contemporary opera, The Death of Klinghoffer, first produced in 1991, has been called "perhaps the most controversial opera of the 20th century." The opera depicts the brutal killing of Leon Klinghoffer, a 69-year-old dis- abled Jewish American who was shot in 1985 by fou...…

















































