Magellan's Log: Iris Murdoch: God Forbid

A Word Child finally opens out onto a jetty in the Thames on a winter’s night where, just before the final tragic death, the soprano and the tenor have a virtuosic three-page duet. God forbid that in these desperate times when opera companies keep convincing rich donors to keep opera on life-support by giving money to allow composers to keep the heart-lung machine plugged in, God forbid that one of them will latch onto Murdoch. It will happen of course. Still, Shakespeare survived Verdi.