The upcoming British theater premiere of an opera based on the 1985 Palestinian hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship is causing controversy. “The Death of Klinghoffer,” a 1991 work that details the murder of Leon Klinghoffer, a disabled American Jew, is due to be performed at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland later this month.
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