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Geoffrey Hill's wife is Alice Goodman, who wrote the libretto to two of John Adam's seminal operas, Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer, the opera about the highjacking of the Achille Lauro. Penny Woolcock directed a British TV version of the latter. Goodman is a really wonderful librettist. Here are two choruses from that opera. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jw33u9qAsE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSTusH-Uwog Jaime ___________________________ Amor tussisque non celantur. (Love like a cough is hard to hide.) —Ovid On 23 Jul 2013, at 15:24, David Bircumshaw wrote: > I should have signed that, Peter. My mobile never shows my name. Keston Sutherland's 'Odes' and Mr Prynne's 'Kazoo Dreamboats' and Sir Geoffrey Hill and Vanessa Place also seem to get mentioned a lot. And I've now realised what I want to see - a Transatlantic Collaboration between Geoffrey Hill and Vanessa Place. Just imagine. And not that wild, after all, Hill's wife wrote the libretto for the Achille Lauro opera. > > best > > > david > > > On 23 July 2013 20:36, <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Yes, Peter (Hughes). I haven't read the whole thing either. I've been following blog comments on it. > Sent from my BlackBerry smartphone from Virgin Media > > > > -- > David Joseph Bircumshaw > Website and A Chide's Alphabet > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw > twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave > blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/ > Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.com