Has anyone seen the Opera. The person who wrote and put the music to this is a renowned artist.
It was originally produced in 1991
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The concept of the opera originated with theatre director Peter Sellars,[1] who was a major collaborator, as was choreographer Mark Morris. The opera was originally commissioned through a consortium of six entities: the Brussels opera company La Monnaie, the San Francisco Opera, the Opéra de Lyon in France, the Los Angeles Festival (separate from that city's opera company), the Glyndebourne Festival in England, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The first performance took place at the Théatre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium, on March 19, 1991, directed by Sellars.[3] The next month, the Lyon premiere took place, and this was followed by a Nonesuch studio recording in that French city with the same cast.
The first US performance was at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on September 5, 1991.[4]
Controversy ensued. An opening scene depicting a suburban family, the Rumors, was permanently cut from the score on grounds that it caused offense. The Nonesuch recording, released in 1992, does not include this music. Furthermore, because of the reaction to the subject matter and philosophy of the opera, planned stagings at Glyndebourne and in Los Angeles were canceled.
When the original production was staged by San Francisco Opera in November 1992, the Jewish Information League staged protests.[5] The first staging in Germany took place in 1997 in Nürnberg, followed by a second German production at the Opernhaus Wuppertal in 2005.
Another European production was given in February 2001, in Helsinki at Finnish National Opera.[6] The first complete UK performance was a 2002 concert in London by the BBC Symphony Orchestra.[7] Penny Woolcock directed a British television version of the opera, in revised form, for Channel 4, with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Adams; its soundtrack was made in 2001, the telecast aired in 2003, and a DVD was released on Decca in 2004.[8] The first Australasian performance took place in February 2005 at the Auckland Festival, New Zealand.[9] The first fully staged UK production was given in August 2005 at the Edinburgh Festival by Scottish Opera.[10][11][12]
The opera received a new performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in December 2003,[13] and the Curtis Institute of Music, through its Curtis Opera Theatre and Curtis Symphony Orchestra, gave a performance in Philadelphia in February 2005. Four years later, students at the Juilliard Opera Center performed a semi-staged concert version with Adams conducting.[14] The Death of Klinghoffer received its second full American staging in June 2011 at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, conducted by Michael Christie and directed by James Robinson.[15][16] The opera received its first London production on February 25, 2012, at the English National Opera,[17] in a co-production with the Metropolitan Opera.[18] In June 2014, the Met's general manager Peter Gelb announced that after discussions with the Anti-Defamation League the planned Live in HD transmission would be cancelled amidst concerns it could encourage antisemitism.[19] The opera was set for seven performaces at the Met in October and November 2014.[20]
After being dropped from production by the Los Angeles Opera, the opera received its Los Angeles area premiere in March 2014 with Long Beach Opera, conducted by Andreas Mitisek and staged by James Robinson.[21]
