Alice Goodman
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Alice Goodman American
poet, was educated at Harvard University
and Cambridge
where she studied English and American literature. She received her Master of Divinity degree from the Boston University School of Theology
. She has written the libretti for two of the operas of John Adams
, Nixon in China
and The Death of Klinghoffer
. She was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and attended and graduated from Breck School
. She was raised as a Reform Jew, and is currently an ordained Anglican priest serving in England. Goodman resumed writing with John Adams on the opera Doctor Atomic
, however she withdrew from this project after a year.
She married the noted British
poet Geoffrey Hill
in 1987. The couple have one daughter. In 2006, Alice Goodman took up the post of chaplain at Trinity College, Cambridge
, and in 2011 became Rector of a group of parishes in Cambridgeshire including Fulbourn
.
United States
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poet, was educated at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
and Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
where she studied English and American literature. She received her Master of Divinity degree from the Boston University School of Theology
Boston University School of Theology
Boston University School of Theology is the oldest theological seminary of American Methodism and the founding school of Boston University, the largest private research university in New England. It is one of thirteen theological schools maintained by the United Methodist Church...
. She has written the libretti for two of the operas of John Adams
John Coolidge Adams
John Coolidge Adams is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer with strong roots in minimalism. His best-known works include Short Ride in a Fast Machine , On the Transmigration of Souls , a choral piece commemorating the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks , and Shaker...
, Nixon in China
Nixon in China (opera)
Nixon in China is an opera in three acts by John Adams, with a libretto by Alice Goodman. Adams' first opera, it was inspired by the 1972 visit to China by US President Richard Nixon. The work premiered at the Houston Grand Opera on October 22, 1987, in a production by Peter Sellars with...
and The Death of Klinghoffer
The Death of Klinghoffer
The Death of Klinghoffer is an American opera, with music by John Adams to an English-language libretto by Alice Goodman. First produced in Brussels and New York in 1991, the opera is based on the hijacking of the passenger liner Achille Lauro by the Palestine Liberation Front in 1985, and the...
. She was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and attended and graduated from Breck School
Breck School
Breck School is an independent college-preparatory preK–12 school in Golden Valley, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. It was founded in 1886 and is affiliated with the Episcopal Church...
. She was raised as a Reform Jew, and is currently an ordained Anglican priest serving in England. Goodman resumed writing with John Adams on the opera Doctor Atomic
Doctor Atomic
Doctor Atomic is an opera by the contemporary American composer John Adams, with libretto by Peter Sellars. It premiered at the San Francisco Opera on 1 October 2005. The work focuses on the great stress and anxiety experienced by those at Los Alamos while the test of the first atomic bomb was...
, however she withdrew from this project after a year.
She married the noted British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
poet Geoffrey Hill
Geoffrey Hill
Geoffrey Hill is an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University. Hill has been considered to be among the most distinguished poets of his generation...
in 1987. The couple have one daughter. In 2006, Alice Goodman took up the post of chaplain at Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...
, and in 2011 became Rector of a group of parishes in Cambridgeshire including Fulbourn
Fulbourn
Fulbourn is a village in Cambridgeshire, England. The term for a resident of the village is "Fulbourner".- Geography :Fulbourn lies about five miles south-east of the centre of Cambridge, separated from the outer city boundary by farmland and the grounds of Fulbourn Hospital. The village itself is...
.
Sources
- Dyer, Richard, "'Klinghoffer' librettist revels in power of words", Boston Globe, 1 September 1991, (subscription access)
- White, Michael "Controversy gets another hearing", Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles TimesThe Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
, 30 August 2005, p. E2 - Trinity College, Cambridge, Rev. Alice Goodman