You don’t expect to see security guards roaming the foyer of the Hannover State Opera, a well-regarded, midsize opera house in a midsize central Germany city.
But before the Saturday premiere of “Echo 72: Israel in Munich,” a new opera about the attack on Israeli athletes by Palestinian militants at the 1972 Munich Olympics, at least four guards tried to blend into the crowd, surveying audience members as they arrived.
“The biggest challenge is fear, and the fear is everywhere,” said Laura Berman, the Hannover State Opera’s artistic director. “The fear is in all the people who participate in the project.