Luciano Pavarotti

He hits the right note for early silly season. At his best he is entertaining on-air company

Artist was best known for work with opera singers and on Shakespeare plays

Classical music has not been documented the way it is in other European countries

No track is safe from appropriation by political campaigns

She may have been globally famous, but in Limerick she was one of the O’Riordans

Q&A with Michael Londra: ‘When I left, it wasn’t to run away but to run toward something’

Albania to Zlatan, to a now slightly arthritic Joxer, here's everything you need to know

Ahead of his Dublin gig next week, Benjamin Clementine recounts his journey from busking on the streets of Paris to winning the Mercury Prize

Fame hasn’t changed The Priests from being plain, ordinary men of the cloth, writes Tony Clayton-Lea

News, views and holiday offers

The Spanish tenor will be in Dublin to sing at a gala concert this month – rain or shine

Carreras knows the end of his career is not far off. Ahead of his Dublin show, he talks about the Three Tenors years, beating leukaemia, and FC Barcelona