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On Wednesday, February 17, 2021, 1–2:30pm ET, watch Derrick Wang discuss how Justice Ginsburg inspired his own creative work — as part of the U.S. Copyright Office’s special online event, “The Enduring Copyright Legacy of Ruth Bader 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.
In February 2018, composer and attorney Derrick Wang speaks at Columbia Law School on the topic of “Music Copyright from a Composer’s Perspective.”
