It ain’t over till … Fat Leonard sings? Well, not quite. Malaysian defense contractor Leonard Glenn Francis, the girthy fraudster at the heart of the worst bribery and corruption scandal in U.S. Navy ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Composer Tommy Dougherty says he has a fascination with the man known as Fat Leonard. Defense contractor Leonard Glenn Francis pleaded guilty to bribing Navy officers with ...

Opera has birthed many stereotypes. We are all familiar with the phrase "It's not over till the fat lady sings!" But while singers come in all sizes, roles written for fat people have been relegated ...

In late summer 2022 when I was promoted from my nighttime breaking news position to the federal court beat, I figured I would have time to ease into my new role, a position I was set to begin ...

One of the biggest questions in the San Diego Opera brouhaha is about whether general director Ian Campbell and his ex-wife Ann Spira Campbell will get paid generous benefits if the opera closes down.

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Here's just a few of the remarks the British press - all male -- aimed at Irish opera singer Tara Erraught after her debut as "Octavian" in Johann Strauss's "Der Rosenkavalier" at the Glyndebourne ...

Last month, staff at Catania's opera house staged a funeral in suitably operatic fashion, carrying a coffin through the center of the packed auditorium. The performance wasn't a dramatic staging idea: ...

The New York City Opera will close its doors this month after 70 years of production. Guest host Celeste Headlee talks to composer Anthony Davis whose work X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X premiered ...