US EditionThe Kennedy Center ‘Kennedy head:’ What It Must Be Thinking!
The Washington National Opera plans to sever ties with the Kennedy Center after it was renamed to include Trump’s name, reflecting cultural institutions' response to political changes.
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The Kennedy Center ‘Kennedy head:’ What it must be thinking!
Henry Lee Higginson would be aghast at an opera company leaving its opera house. But it’s true. For murky reasons the reporting has not clarified, the Washington National Opera said it would leave the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after operating there since 1971. Higginson was a Civil War brevet colonel who, after investment success, founded the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1881. You could get into a performance for 25¢. By 190…
The departure of the lyrical company comes as a wave of unprecedented boycotts of artists, patrons and the public hit this room dedicated to the live show since 1971.
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Washington National Opera To Ditch Trump’s Kennedy Center
The New York Times called the Washington National Opera’s decision to move its performances out of the Kennedy Center “perhaps the largest artistic rebuke yet to President Trump’s campaign to remake the Kennedy Center in his image.” That is literally what Trump is up to. After naming himself chairman of the once esteemed cultural center, President Sleepyhead illegally slapped his own name in front of the Kennedy name. Can a giant Chairman Mao-ty…
The Opéra justifies this decision with "deep changes" that have taken place "under the direction of its general manager Richard Grenell". It was hosted since 1971 by the cultural centre of Washington, the real institution of the American capital, recently renamed Trump-Kennedy Center.
Since Trump's takeover of the great cultural centre, concerned above all with profitability, spectators and patrons of the institution have become rare. And the honorable Washington National Opera announces his move.
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