{"id":538036,"date":"2026-01-23T22:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T22:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/538036\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T22:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T22:41:09","slug":"renee-fleming-cancels-kennedy-center-shows-amid-trump-era-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/538036\/","title":{"rendered":"Ren\u00e9e Fleming cancels Kennedy Center shows amid Trump-era changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Ren\u00e9e Fleming<\/a> has withdrawn from two scheduled May appearances at the Kennedy Center,<\/a> the latest in a wave of cancellations since President Donald Trump<\/a> ousted the previous leadership and the new leadership\u2019s announcement that the venue would be renamed the Trump Kennedy Center.<\/p>\n

The Grammy-winning soprano was to have appeared with conductor James Gaffigan and the National Symphony Orchestra. Her decision is unsurprising; a year ago she resigned as \u201cArtistic Advisor at Large,\u201d citing the forced departures of Kennedy Center Chair David Rubenstein and its president, Deborah Rutter. The center itself referred to \u201ca scheduling conflict\u201d as the reason she dropped out of the May concerts.<\/p>\n

\u201cA new soloist and repertoire will be announced at a later date, and the remainder of the program remains unchanged,\u201d reads a statement on the Kennedy Center web site that was posted this week. Fleming did not immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Bela Fleck and Issa Rae are among the many other artists who have called off events at the Kennedy Center, which has been part of Trump\u2019s broader attack on what he calls \u201cwoke\u201d culture. Earlier this month, the Washington National Opera announced it was severing ties with the Kennedy Center, where it had performed since 1971. <\/p>\n

The musical presenters Vocal Arts DC, who earlier this week called off three Kennedy Center concerts because of \u201cfinancial circumstances,\u201d announced Friday they had found new venues for such scheduled performers as tenor Benjamin Bernheim and pianist Carrie-Ann Matheson. Bernheim and Matheson will appear next month at George Washington University, where the Washington National Opera is staging two operas this spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Ren\u00e9e Fleming has withdrawn from two scheduled May appearances at the Kennedy Center, the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":538037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[107792,435,1576,237749,69,171,57,59915,84611,175098,76154,80,237748,235115,67,132,68,93],"class_list":{"0":"post-538036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bela-fleck","9":"tag-celebrity","10":"tag-classical-music","11":"tag-david-m-rubenstein","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-george-washington","16":"tag-issa-rae","17":"tag-james-gaffigan","18":"tag-lin-manuel-miranda","19":"tag-politics","20":"tag-renee-fleming","21":"tag-send-to-apple-news","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-washington-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115946827579271950","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}