Kennedy Center Head Insists They Instigated Split With the Washington National Opera, Not Vice Versa

January 10, 2026 Variety

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 […]