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‘Scalia/Ginsburg’ opening night sold out; tickets available for July 17, 19
May 14

May 14 ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’ opening night sold out; tickets available for July 17, 19

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The July 11 opening night performance of Scalia/Ginsburg’s world premiere production at the Castleton Festival is SOLD OUT.

Get tickets for July 17 and 19 (the remaining two performances) while you still can! http://bit.ly/SG-Tix0

Stanford Arts Initiative & Stanford Law co-present ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’ event May 13
May 4

May 4 Stanford Arts Initiative & Stanford Law co-present ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’ event May 13

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In the Bay Area? Want a sneak peek at ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’ before its world premiere at the Castleton Festival in July? Then stop by Stanford on May 13…

Ginsburg with a “U”
Mar 15

Mar 15 Ginsburg with a “U”

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Celebrate Justice Ginsburg’s birthday…by remembering to spell her name correctly.

VIDEO: Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer reacts to Derrick Wang’s opera ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’
Mar 14

Mar 14 VIDEO: Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer reacts to Derrick Wang’s opera ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’

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In a March 12, 2015 talk at the 92nd Street Y in New York, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer weighed in on Derrick Wang’s opera Scalia/Ginsburg. Watch the video here.

Read the complete text of Derrick Wang’s opera ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’!
Mar 5

Mar 5 Read the complete text of Derrick Wang’s opera ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’!

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The complete text of Derrick Wang’s opera Scalia/Ginsburg, featuring 248 footnotes to legal and operatic precedent, has been published by the Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts — with prefaces by U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ginsburg and Scalia themselves.

“Scalia/Ginsburg is for me a dream come true”: U.S. Supreme Court Justices write prefaces to Derrick Wang’s opera
Mar 5

Mar 5 “Scalia/Ginsburg is for me a dream come true”: U.S. Supreme Court Justices write prefaces to Derrick Wang’s opera

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg calls Derrick Wang’s opera Scalia/Ginsburg a “dream come true,” in a preface published by the Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts.

NY Times: Justice Ginsburg to attend world premiere of ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’ opera
Feb 20

Feb 20 NY Times: Justice Ginsburg to attend world premiere of ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’ opera

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The New York Times reports that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will attend the world premiere of Derrick Wang’s opera Scalia/Ginsburg.

Get Tickets for the World Premiere of ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’!
Jan 5

Jan 5 Get Tickets for the World Premiere of ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’!

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Get tickets for Derrick Wang’s opera ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’ (July 11, 17, 19) — and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s talk on law in opera (July 11)! — all at the Castleton Festival.

Announcing the World Premiere Production of ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’
Dec 11

Dec 11 Announcing the World Premiere Production of ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’

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VIDEO: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg explains title, plot of Derrick Wang’s opera ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’
Aug 5

Aug 5 VIDEO: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg explains title, plot of Derrick Wang’s opera ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’

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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 praises ‘knockout performance’ of ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’ aria at Glimmerglass
Jul 25

Jul 25 DC Theatre Scene praises ‘knockout performance’ of ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’ aria at Glimmerglass

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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!

Cooperstown Crier interviews ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’ creator Derrick Wang
Jul 24

Jul 24 Cooperstown Crier interviews ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’ creator Derrick Wang

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‘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.

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