Saturday, November 8, 2025

Washington National Opera may move out of Kennedy Center due to Trump ‘takeover’ | Washington DC | The Guardian

Ticket sales were about 40% unsold compared with before Trump declared himself chair, said Zambello. Many have decided to boycott the center. Every day she receives messages of protest from formerly loyal members of the audience, she says. 

 "They say things like: 'I'm never setting foot in there until the "orange menace" is gone.' Or: 'Don't you know history? Don't you know what Hitler did? I refuse to give you a penny,'" she said. 

 "People send me back their the season brochure shredded in an envelope and say: 'Never, never, will I return: while he's in power.'"…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/07/washington-national-opera-kennedy-center


 

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