Alice Goodman

Not to be confused with Alice Godman.

Alice Goodman
Born	St. Paul, Minnesota
Occupation	Librettist, priest
Nationality	American
Genre	poetry, opera
Notable works	Nixon In China, The Death of Klinghoffer
Spouse	Sir Geoffrey Hill
Children	1

Alice Goodman, Lady Hill (born 1958^[1]) is an American poet and librettist. She is also an Anglican priest, working in England.^[2]

Biography

Goodman was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and attended and graduated from Breck School. She was educated at Harvard University and Girton College, Cambridge, where she studied English and American literature. During the 1980s she published poems in venues such as Poetry^[3] and the London Review of Books.^[4] 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) and the text of a cantata by Tarik O'Regan (A Letter of Rights).^[5] Goodman resumed writing with John Adams on the opera Doctor Atomic, but withdrew from this project after a year.

She was raised as a Reform Jew, and converted to Christianity in 1989, as an adult.^[6][7] In 2006, Alice Goodman took up the post of chaplain at Trinity College, Cambridge,^[8] and in 2011 became Rector of a group of parishes in Cambridgeshire including Fulbourn.^[9]

Goodman married the noted English poet Geoffrey Hill in 1987. The couple has one daughter, Alberta.^[10]

References

1. "Alice Goodman - National Portrait Gallery".
2. White (30 August 2005) p. E2
3. "The Chemical Blonde by Alice Goodman | Poetry Magazine". Poetry Magazine. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
4. Goodman, Alice (3 December 1981). "Alice Goodman · Poem: 'As with the commander of an army so is it with the mistress of a house' · LRB 3 December 1981". London Review of Books. 03 (22). Retrieved 21 January 2022.
5. "Celebrating Magna Carta in music". BBC. June 14, 2015. Retrieved June 19, 2015.
6. May, Thomas (22 August 2017). "She Gave Words to Opera's Nixon (Published 2017)". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 January 2022. 1989
7. Berman, Paul (October 23, 2014). "Klinghoffer at the Met". Tablet. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
8. Trinity College
9. "Fulbourn Village Guide". 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
10. Mansfield (22 August 2005)

External links

• Dyer, Richard, "'Klinghoffer' librettist revels in power of words", Boston Globe, 1 September 1991, (subscription access)
• Mansfield, Susan. "Has Her Life Been the Proverbial 'Curate's Egg'? (The Scotsman [Edinburgh] - 22 August 2005)". andante Corp. Archived from the original on 2008-11-23. Retrieved 2011-11-05.
• White, Michael "Controversy gets another hearing", Los Angeles Times, 30 August 2005, p. E2
• Trinity College, Cambridge, Rev. Alice Goodman