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Pommer said:
This story was conflusing…it seems to suggested that the DJT-JFK Center needed more money from the WNO and the WNO demurred. I is close?
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I think the reality is that opera is not super popular yet it's expensive to produce. So if opera weren't supported by wealthy donors, it wouldn't happen at all. I don't know how that translates to the deals between the opera company and the venue, but it wouldn't surprise me if the government was [clutching pearls] supporting the arts financially, and opera may be more expensive than a case of Bud Light for Kid Rock.
 
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essentialsaltes said:

Washington National Opera is leaving the Kennedy Center​

In what might be the most decisive critique yet of President Trump’s remake of the Kennedy Center, the Washington National Opera’s board approved a resolution on Friday to leave the venue it has occupied since 1971. [when the Kennedy Center opened]

“Today, the Washington National Opera announced its decision to seek an amicable early termination of its affiliation agreement with the Kennedy Center and resume operations as a fully independent nonprofit entity,” the company said in a statement to the Associated Press.

Kennedy Center President Ambassador Richard Grenell tweeted that the call was made by the Kennedy Center, writing that its leadership had “approached the Opera leadership last year with this idea and they began to be open to it.”

“Having an exclusive relationship has been extremely expensive and limiting in choice and variety,” Grenell wrote. “We have spent millions of dollars to support the Washington Opera’s exclusivity and yet they were still millions of dollars in the hole - and getting worse.”
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The notes were sour anyway.
 
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