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She is a priest, poet and
librettist raised in Minnesota. She studied English and American literature
at Harvard and has gone on to write the libretti for John Adams in his operas
The Death of Klinghoffer
and Nixon in China. She had started to write Doctor Atomic for him, but withdrew
from this after a year, but is reportedly working with the theatre director
of all the aforementioned operas, Peter Sellars
on The Consolation of Philosophy. She was ordained as an Anglican
priest and is currently serving as chaplain at Trinity
College, Cambridge. Her husband is the British poet Geoffrey
Hill.
The Death of Klinghoffer Recordings
Orchestra of the Opera de
Lyon
Nonesuch
NONE 79281 (CD: The Death of Klinghoffer)
Conductor - Kent Nagano
Source:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Goodman
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