From the first time they met backstage to a final encounter when the Supreme Court justice was ill.
Graves and Ginsburg, an opera lover, at an event during their 30-year friendship. Photograph courtesy of Denyce Graves., and I was singing the role of Maddalena. Martin Feinstein [then director of the Washington National Opera] brought her backstage to meet the artists. It was my birthday, and she was so kind. It wasn’t until much later, when President Clinton was nominating her to the Supreme Court, that I said, ‘Oh, I think that’s the woman I met.
. I was singing the role of Dulcinea, and they had the character in a very Lucille Ball red wig. There was one performance where I came into my dressing room and they brought in a different wig. I said, ‘Where’s the red wig?’ They said Justice Ginsburg was in the theater last night and she said, ‘I hate that wig—take that thing off of her head.’ I called her to thank her, to tell her I didn’t like it, either. That was one of the moments where our relationship began to shift.
“There’s another moment. We were at a hotel for a private event, and I was seated next to her. She had a piece of spinach stuck in her teeth. I whispered, ‘Justice Ginsburg, you might want to go to the ladies’ room. There’s a piece of spinach stuck in your teeth.’ She said, ‘Oh, thank you for telling me.’
“When she was ill this last time, [my husband and I] had taken a train from Baltimore to New York, and when we arrived, I went left and a policeman said, ‘You can’t come this way.’ I thought he was telling me it was a dead end. Then I heard this voice say, ‘Denyce,’ and I looked and it was Justice Ginsburg. She was surrounded with an entourage. She said, ‘Nobody knows this, but the cancer has returned and I’m secretly going in for treatments.
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