Derrick Wang’s Supreme Court opera Scalia/Ginsburg will receive a new production by Toledo Opera in April 2020.
Welcome to the website of composer and lyricist Derrick Wang.
Welcome to the website of composer and lyricist Derrick Wang.
Derrick Wang’s Supreme Court opera Scalia/Ginsburg will receive a new production by Toledo Opera in April 2020.
The New England premiere of Derrick Wang’s opera will take place at the height of the 2018 midterm election season.
The Scalia/Ginsburg opera will be performed in a law-themed 2019 Festival at Wilmington’s Grand Opera House.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg describes Derrick Wang’s comic opera Scalia/Ginsburg, which ushered in an era of RBG-themed books, films, and art.
In February 2018, composer and attorney Derrick Wang speaks at Columbia Law School on the topic of “Music Copyright from a Composer’s Perspective.”
Derrick Wang’s opera Scalia/Ginsburg is cited in the foreword (pp. x–xi) to the new book Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived, released by Crown Forum on October 3, 2017.
Scalia/Ginsburg is “engaging” and possessed of “musical wit,” says The Wall Street Journal. “Enchanting” and “a perfect…jewel,” writes Opera Today.
Derrick Wang joins the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University, where he will teach new interdisciplinary courses on law and music.
Want to be the first to see Scalia/Ginsburg’s new production at the 2017 Glimmerglass Festival? Here’s how.
The audio version of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s new book My Own Words features a special segment on the opera Scalia/Ginsburg, narrated and performed by composer-librettist Derrick Wang and recorded at New York’s Steinway Hall.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s new book My Own Words was released this week. Guess which opera is an entire chapter in it?
The Center for Italian Studies Conference Remembering Justice Antonin Scalia concluded with Derrick Wang’s presentation The Aesthetic Influence of Justices Scalia and Ginsburg.
