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Barber of Seville

Not since 1907, when Richard Strauss’s gyrating nympho Salome got the ax after her one-night-only Metropolitan Opera premiere has such rancor rattled America’s foremost opera house. When the august Met unveiled John Adam’s The Death of Klinghoffer (1991) last month, charges of antisemitism and pro-Palestinian sentiments were hurled at the…

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