The Glimmerglass Festival presents Derrick Wang’s opera Scalia/Ginsburg, starring acclaimed tenor William Burden, on August 4 & 13, 2017.
Welcome to the website of composer and writer Derrick Wang.
Welcome to the website of composer and writer Derrick Wang.
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The Glimmerglass Festival presents Derrick Wang’s opera Scalia/Ginsburg, starring acclaimed tenor William Burden, on August 4 & 13, 2017.
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…
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.
‘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.’”
[Photo: Julie Slavet via Twitter]
