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The legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be honored by the Australian premiere of Derrick Wang’s operatic comedy Scalia/Ginsburg, performed by Orchestra Victoria on Sunday, February 7, 2021 for one night only.
On Sunday, November 22, 2020 at 3:30pm EST, Scalia/Ginsburg receives a radio broadcast by WWFM-FM 89.1 (Trenton, NJ), part of the WFMT Radio Network.
This broadcast of OperaDelaware’s double-bill begins at 3pm EST with Gilbert & Sullivan’s Trial by Jury, followed at 3:30pm EST by Scalia/Ginsburg.
Video (at 48:40): Watch the central duet from Derrick Wang’s opera Scalia/Ginsburg (“We are different, we are one”) on Live with Carnegie Hall: Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg, introduced by Metropolitan Opera star Isabel Leonard.
On November 14, 2020 at 1:30pm EST, Scalia/Ginsburg receives a radio broadcast by WETA-FM 90.9 (Washington, DC), part of the WFMT radio network.
This broadcast of OperaDelaware’s double-bill begins at 1pm EST with Gilbert & Sullivan’s Trial by Jury, followed at 1:30pm EST by Scalia/Ginsburg.
On November 7, 2020 at 1:30pm EST, listen here to the WFMT radio broadcast of Scalia/Ginsburg, in a production by OperaDelaware.
This broadcast of OperaDelaware’s double-bill begins at 1pm EST with Gilbert & Sullivan’s Trial by Jury, followed at 1:30pm EST by Scalia/Ginsburg.
After the broadcast, join a live Q&A with composer-librettist Derrick Wang hosted by The Johns Hopkins University’s SNF Agora Institute, Peabody Institute, and Hopkins at Home.
“[T]his is the kind of opera that should be everywhere”: Operawire calls Derrick Wang’s Scalia/Ginsburg at Opera Grand Rapids “a fantastic gem,” “a blast to watch,” and “the very definition of inclusive.”
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.
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.
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?
