Celebrate Justice Ginsburg’s birthday…by remembering to spell her name correctly.
Welcome to the website of composer and writer Derrick Wang.
Welcome to the website of composer and writer Derrick Wang.
Celebrate Justice Ginsburg’s birthday…by remembering to spell her name correctly.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.’”
[Photo: Julie Slavet via Twitter]
