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Renée Fleming Is Latest Performer to Cancel Appearances at the Kennedy Center

Maya Georgi

created: Jan. 23, 2026, 6:38 p.m. | updated: Jan. 26, 2026, 7:21 a.m.

Renée Fleming has canceled her scheduled performances at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Last year, following all of the shake-ups at the Kennedy Center, including the forced departures of the center’s Chair David Rubenstein and President Deborah Rutter, Fleming resigned from her role as Artistic Advisor-at-Large. Fleming’s history with the Kennedy Center also includes 25 performances “in various capacities,” as is described on the center’s site. Gaffigan and the NSO will still put on a show on May 29 and May 30, but “a new soloist and repertoire will be announced at a later date,” per the Kennedy Center website. By December of that year, the president’s hand-selected board had voted to change the institution’s name to the Trump Kennedy Center.

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