From ‘rage aria’ to ‘lovely duet,’ opera does justice to court, Ginsburg says

Washington Post ^ | 7/8/2015 | Geoff Edgers

[Borges]

“He sang with great verve,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said of Justice Antonin Scalia in a phone interview with The Washington Post this week.

“Nino,” as she calls him, is her philosophical opposite and great friend. And Saturday, Ginsburg will watch and listen to their relationship played out on the stage at the Castleton Festival in Virginia. Derrick Wang’s one-act opera, “Scalia/Ginsburg,”

[Borges]

[2banana]

Stroke of the pen - law of the land.

[Gaffer]

Did somebody wake her up?

[JennysCool]

All politics aside, this is pretty cool.

[Mariner]

IT pisses me off that she would associate the highest achievement in performance art...to SC criminality.

It's a LONG ways from Verdi, Mozart and Wagner....to Ginsberg.

[Borges]

The opera is about her.

[Mariner]

"The opera is about her."

Well, hopefully she dies a tragic death so that Rigoletto can mourn her passage.

[Borges]

Classical Ping

[left that other site]

good gawd.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Oh, good grief! Has this woman gone ‘round he bend? Imagine quibbling about the order of names in the title? Well, I guess she didn’t quibble, but she MENTIONED it.