In a statement probably anyone could have seen coming, Richard Grenell, the controversial president of Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center, spoke out to claim that it was the organization’s leadership that decided to end ties with the Washington National Opera, not the other way around.
Grenell’s tweets on the subject Saturday followed by a day the opera company’s announcement Friday that it would be taking its programming elsewhere. Opera leaders had said that it was an amicable split, and made no mention of the political turmoil causing many artists to cancel their Kennedy Center engagements, leaving few “name” acts on the building’s 2026 calendar.
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