Alice Goodman

This is the program for the original production of "The Death of Klinghoffer" at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Bruxelles. It contains the complete libretto in English and in French, poetry which influenced it, an interview with John Adams, and a preface by Peter Sellars, as well as the original cast listings and some illustrations of the incident and of religious imagery, both Palestinian and Judaic. As Sellers says in his forward, "it unfolds in a spiritual landscape and offers an evocation, an illustration, a meditation on living and dying." The opera is essentially a lament on violence, on history, on living as the other, on exile, on war.… (meer)