The Metropolitan Opera has cancelled plans for a global simulcast to cinemas of John Adams' The Death of Klinghoffer amid fears it could stir anti-Semitic feelings.
The Live in HD broadcast had been scheduled for November 15.
The opera depicts the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship by the Palestine Liberation Front in which Jewish New Yorker Leon Klinghoffer was killed.
It gives voice to hijackers as well as victims and has attracted controversy since its premiere in 1991.
The Met says it made its decision after discussions with the Anti-Defamation League.
The League praised the Met's decision, saying while the opera was not anti-Semitic it feared it could create anti-Israeli sentiments in foreign countries.
Mr Adams blasted the decision, saying the opera "in no form condones or promotes violence, terrorism or anti-Semitism".
"My opera accords great dignity to the memory of Leon and Marilyn Klinghoffer, and it roundly condemns his brutal murder," he said in a statement.
The Death of Klinghoffer will still be performed at the opera house as planned in the Autumn.
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