But is the music any good?

The Death of Klinghoffer at the Metropolitan Opera Needs Scandal | New Republic

"Morton Klein, president of the right-wing Zionist Organization of America, called Klinghoffer an ‘Operatic Kristallnacht’ (I imagine anti-Semitic, glass-shattering high C’s). Truthfully, I do not know if the opera offers ‘a distorted view of history,’ as former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani claimed, or if ‘It’s required for the Met to do the piece,’ as a supporter countered. But the strident moralism of both sides drowns out the quieter sounds of tickets being sold and seats filled. In fact, protests are good business for the Met, and scandal is central to the economy of high culture."