Alice Goodman: The furore that finished me

Two decades ago, Alice Goodman wrote the libretto to The Death of Klinghoffer, an opera about a Jewish American murdered by Palestinian terrorists. It ended her career. Does she have any regrets?When Alice Goodman was writing the libretto for The Death of Klinghoffer, she sensed she was creating something extraordinary. "I was thinking, 'I have never done anything as good as this! By God, I can write! It's great! I'm going to be famous! I'll write another opera! And another! And another!' That'...

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