Plus, the National can hold about 1,700 people, while the Kennedy Center’s Opera House, where large tours perform, seats about 600 more. Even figuring a low average ticket price of $100 ...

have withdrawn the work from the 2025-26 season of the Washington National Opera at The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., citing concern over Donald Trump’s takeover of the institution’s ...

On Friday evening at the Kennedy Center, the Washington National Opera ... But beyond any expectations I brought to the opera house, it succeeds as a portrait of the perils of genius — what ...

But one opera was withdrawn from the lineup by the artists who created it, who objected to the president’s takeover. By Javier C. Hernández The Kennedy Center ... and a White House tour.

They are expected to meet on the stage of the center’s opera house according to a source cited by CBS News. The Washington Examiner reached out to the White House and the Kennedy Center for comment.

The Heritage Foundation, for instance, has long recommended that the public-private opera house be cut off. According to that Trump-friendly think tank, privatizing the Kennedy Center entirely ...

Last week, the Kennedy Center’s new leadership ... in the future of art forms championed by the center — such as classical music and opera— that have long seen a decline in new audiences ...

President Donald Trump is expected to visit the Kennedy Center for a board meeting on ... the meeting to be held onstage at the venue's opera house. "'Riverdance' loaded out tonight, so they ...

Fellow Travelers will be replaced on the Kennedy Center line-up with a new production of Robert Ward’s opera The Crucible. The withdrawal is the latest high-profile voluntary protest cancelation ...