The Guardian -
23 Jul 2023 08:00

From nights at the opera to the nation's best-loved bands, music is playing a vital role in resistance to the Russian invasion. And not only in terms of morale - many musicians have actually gone to the frontline Men arrive on crutches, two in wheelchairs, through a wintry dusk at the monumental neo-Renaissance opera house in Lviv, western Ukraine. Some 100 seats tonight have been reserved for serving soldiers, who enter the lobby - a fin-de-siècle wonder - in military fatigues. They hand thes...
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