Welcome to the website of composer and writer Derrick Wang.
In an address to Duke Law School’s DC Summer Institute on Law and Policy, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg explains why the name Scalia comes first in the opera Scalia/Ginsburg. Watch the video here.
DC Theatre Scene, reviewing the Glimmerglass Festival’s July 19 event with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, calls the excerpt from the opera Scalia/Ginsburg “the knockout performance of the afternoon” — and exhorts the Washington, DC community to mount a full production!
‘Scalia/Ginsburg’ creator Derrick Wang shares his background, his journey, and his inspiration for this opera — an excerpt from which was the audience favorite at the 2014 Glimmerglass Festival.
At the Glimmerglass Festival’s July 19 special event, “[t]he piece that was received the most enthusiastically by the audience was…an excerpt from [Derrick Wang’s opera] ‘Scalia/Ginsburg.’”
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