The staging, by the acclaimed British director Tom Morris, in his Met debut, is a co-production with the English National Opera in London, where it opened in 2012. Parts of the text remind me of Elizabeth Bishop’s poems, which can seem profound and full of richly detailed imagery, even when the meaning is obscure. Goodman’s poetic libretto, though often enigmatic, is powerfully so. Adams’s most inspired and personal scores, with episodes of haunting, hazy music in which, over subdued, ominous, sustained bass tones in the orchestra, instruments spin out melodic lines full of ancient-sounding curlicues.
The piece is as much a ruminative reflection on the events of the hijacked Achille Lauro cruise ship as a dramatization of them. “Klinghoffer,” though not without flaws, including a couple of satirical Western characters that could have been left out, is a searching, spiritual and humane work.
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