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All in Scalia/Ginsburg
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.”
Derrick Wang’s Supreme Court opera Scalia/Ginsburg will receive a new production by Opera Naples in January 2020. Tickets: http://bit.ly/SGontix
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.
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.
