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This is our favorite review/quote on Derrick Wang's opera, "Scalia/Ginsburg", from the Los Angeles Times. It is as relevant today as it was when the opera was first written! In this comical show Scalia (conservative) and Ginsburg (liberal) have a bi-partisan friendship in which they share a respect for the constitution and a love of opera. Solo Opera's production is rescheduled for Sept. 10 and 12, 2021. We hope that all is open by then so we can share this wonderful show with you soon! Stay safe until we can be together again to enjoy the arts!

"God has wrought many things out of oppression. He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to createand from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment and many different situations."- Martin Luther King Jr. Read More: Martin Luther King Jr. on the Power of Music | https://diffuser.fm/martin-luther-king-jr-on-the-power-of/ https://diffuser.fm/martin-luther-king-jr-on-the-power-of-/

A wonderful new update from Opera America. Let's keep hoping the vaccine roll out goes smoothly and 2021 sees the beginning of the opera world reopening! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCW1Y1GB6zI&feature=youtu.be

Just another reminder of a local art show about RBG!

Main Street Arts in Walnut Creek highlights in person and online a tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. We share this with you today in anticipation of our Scalia/Ginsburg opera rescheduled for Sept 10/12, 2021. http://mainstreetarts.net/

HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM SOLO OPERA! (From Solo Opera's 2015 production of HANSEL AND GRETEL with Deborah Rosengaus as the Witch. Set Design by Peter Crompton.) Photo by John Buyer.

Small theater companies in California have no good options under AB5. Many will close to permanently, not because of Covid, but because of AB5. Watch this report on KCRA News-3 TV:

Let's keep the love of opera and the arts alive even through this challenging pandemic. Together with the rest of the world we celebrate world opera day! #worldoperaday

Thank you, Janos Gereben, for including Solo Opera's rescheduled opera "Scalia/Ginsburg" by Derrrick Wang in your column. Yes, we all wish there was better news for the arts. Next year! We hope 2021 is the year we can all reopen. https://www.sfcv.org//some-shutdown-extensions-now-set-thr

The Economist, on #RBG and Derrick Wang’s Scalia/Ginsburg: ‘On the evening of July 11th 2015, Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to the opera. There was nothing odd in th...at. Opera, after the law, was her great love. This particular opera, however, Scalia/Ginsburg, by Derrick Wang, was about her. It featured Antonin Scalia, then the court’s most scathing conservative, and she, its most notorious liberal, duelling musically in the styles of Mozart, Verdi and Puccini. He had to go through various trials; she helped him out, at one point soaring through a glass ceiling in the character of the Queen of the Night from The Magic Flute. She loved it all. As the court shifted[s]he found herself becoming an icon, a face on T-shirts and the subject of biopics: Notorious RBG, mystifying but fun. What did not change was her regard for her colleagues, conservative or not, in the wonderfully civilised family that was the court. For each of them, after all, their basic motivation was the same. At the end of Scalia/Ginsburg, the two famous foes-and-friends sang together the aria which was her favourite: Separate strands unite in friction/To protect our country’s coreAnd this is why we will see justice done./We are different;/We are one.’ #RIPRBG #SCOTUS #opera

We are different. We are one. Lyrics by Derrick Wang from his opera Scalia/Ginsburg.

Derrick Wang discusses his opera and memories of Justice Ginsburg.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg loved opera, and found great joy in sharing that love with other people friends, law clerks, and even her fellow Supreme Court Justices. Keep watching to find out exactly what she recommended for the opera novice. #meetopera

A beautiful quote from Derrick Wang’s opera Scalia/Ginsburg.

We here at Solo Opera are devastated by the loss of RBG today. We were already so saddened to have to reschedule our opera Scalia/Ginsburg by Derrick Wang due to Covid-19. When we produce it next year it will be even more to honor her life’s work and achievements. Rest In Peace, Ruth.

The Covid-19 pandemic has hit the entertainment business hard. All events are cancelled and many many artists out of work and companies struggling to survive. Today please share this logo to help bring awareness to the struggle. And also contact your representatives and senators to please ask for PUA to be extended. The industry may not survive without help... (Logo shared with permission from Oaktown Productions and Rooster Productions who we work with to build our opera sets.) #WeMakeEvents #ExtendPUA #RedAlertRESTART

Our FB fundraiser is over. A BIG THANK YOU to all who donated and helped us get closer to our goal. We will continue to accept donations until the end of year at our website link below as well. Stay safe everyone! https://soloopera.org/support-san-francisco-bay-area-opera.

It's International Dog Day! Oh my- we can't forget our wonderful children's opera "Chip and His Dog" in 2014! We loved working with Cantabella Chorus and sharing opera with the younger generation!!! Help us continue our mission to educate! Donations can be made on FB or on our website www.SoloOpera.org https://www.facebook.com/donate/1437563119775783/10223505561412846/