Opera unswervingly believes in the potential for a divine spark in humans, says Robert Thicknesse

London’s orchestral rat-race will have fewer runners when musical life returns, says Norman Lebrecht

The average rock band from the 1980s onwards dressed as if they were going to fix your car, not blow your mind

Forty years on from the death of John Lennon, Dominic Green recounts the tormented life of the last universal Western icon

You will search in vain for a new life of any rocker who made his name after the advent of punk

New music was not officially muted in the Soviet Union. It just got left at home, says Norman Lebrecht

The former hard-living frontman continues to expand his horizons

The Divine Comedy will be playing a concert at the Barbican on 14 October to celebrate Neil Hannon

A decent lockdown protest song is about as likely as a vaccine before Christmas

Remembering the great British saxophonist and prize-winning maker of model aircraft