The Death of Klinghoffer

Album by John Adams & Alice Goodman & Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon & Kent Nagano

The Death of Klinghoffer is an opera by American composer John Adams, premiered in 1991. The score blends elements of minimalism with late-romantic orchestral colour and dramatic vocal writing to dramatise political and ethical themes, and it represents a substantial operatic project in Adams's career that contributed to the expansion of contemporary American opera in the late 20th century.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    The Death of Klinghoffer: Chorus of Exiled Palestinians
    8:40
  2. 2.
    The Death of Klinghoffer: Chorus of Exiled Jews
    8:38
  3. 3.
    The Death of Klinghoffer: Act I, Scene I. "It was just after one fifteen" (The Captain)
    8:09
  4. 4.
    The Death of Klinghoffer: Act I, Scene I. "My grandson Didi, who was two" (Swiss Grandmother)
    5:10
  5. 5.
    The Death of Klinghoffer: Act I, Scene I. "Give these orders" (Molqi)
    2:01
  6. 6.
    The Death of Klinghoffer: Act I, Scene I. "So I said to my grandson" (Swiss Grandmother)
    1:18
  7. 7.
    The Death of Klinghoffer: Act I, Scene I. "We are sorry for you" (Mamoud)
    1:22
  8. 8.
    The Death of Klinghoffer: Act I, Scene I. Ocean Chorus
    5:48
  9. 9.
    The Death of Klinghoffer: Act I, Scene II. "Now it is night" (Mamoud)
    6:58
  10. 10.
    The Death of Klinghoffer: Act I, Scene II. "I think if you could talk like this" (The Captain)
    1:12
  11. 11.
    The Death of Klinghoffer: Act I, Scene II. "I have often relected that this is no ship" (The Captain)
    2:28
  12. 12.
    The Death of Klinghoffer: Act I, Scene II. "I kept my distance" (Austrian Woman)
    3:09
  13. 13.
    The Death of Klinghoffer: Act I, Scene II. "Those birds flying above us" (Mamoud)
    4:24
  14. 14.
    The Death of Klinghoffer: Act I, Scene II. Night Chorus
    3:33

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    The Death of Klinghoffer: Act II. Hagar Chorus
    5:26
  2. 3.
    The Death of Klinghoffer: Act II, Scene I. "Come here. Look." (Molqi)
    3:58
  3. 4.
    The Death of Klinghoffer: Act II, Scene I. "I've never been a violent man" (Leon Klinghoffer)
    3:28
  4. 5.
    The Death of Klinghoffer: Act II, Scene I. "You are always complaining of your suffering" (Rambo)
    5:14
  5. 6.
    The Death of Klinghoffer: Act II, Scene I. "I must have been hysterical" (British Dancing Girl)
    4:43
  6. 7.
    The Death of Klinghoffer: Act II, Scene I. "It is as if our earthly life were spent miserably" (Omar)
    6:47
  7. 8.
    The Death of Klinghoffer: Act II, Scene I. Desert Chorus
    5:05
  8. 9.
    The Death of Klinghoffer: Act II, Scene II. "My one consolation" (Marilyn Klinghoffer)
    5:24
  9. 10.
    The Death of Klinghoffer: Act II, Scene II. Klinghoffer's death
    3:24
  10. 11.
    The Death of Klinghoffer: Act II, Scene II. "Every fifteen minutes, one more will be shot" (Mamoud)
    5:12
  11. 12.
    The Death of Klinghoffer: Act II, Scene II. Aria of the Falling Body (Gymnopédie)
    7:23
  12. 13.
    The Death of Klinghoffer: Act II, Scene II. Day Chorus
    4:32
  13. 14.
    The Death of Klinghoffer: Act II, Scene III. "Mrs. Klinghoffer, please sit down." (The Captain)
    3:53
  14. 15.
    The Death of Klinghoffer: Act II, Scene III. "You embraced them!" (Marilyn Klinghoffer)
    7:45

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