The beloved tenor’s latest book and album emerged from a time when the pandemic forced him to question what exactly he does when he sings. By Ian Bostridge Rufus Wainwright, Josh Groban, Andrea ...

We’ll explore Franz Schubert’s Winterreise, or Winter Journey – the late great, strange song cycle with tenor Ian Bostridge. Plus: a fresh look at contemporary German pop music. Tenor and author Ian ...

What are the odds? Two books, both by English tenors and both on the nature of song. In “Song & Self: A Singer’s Reflections on Music and Performance,” Ian Bostridge, known for his intense operatic ...

Listening to Ian Bostridge sing, you somehow feel closer to that elusive concept of musical perfection. The acclaimed English tenor reveals myriad detail and color in an art song. A slight inflection ...

Ian Bostridge is not a classical singer. Yes, he's a tenor, and what he does is vocal performance, and it's strikingly compelling. But classical singers produce sound in a certain way, with a certain ...

The Leaning Tower of Tenor: Ian Bostridge and Thomas Adès at Carnegie Hall (Photo: Chris Lee) On Monday night in Carnegie Hall’s Stern auditorium, audience members seemed to scan the empty stage for ...

Before becoming a professional singer in the mid-1990s, Ian Bostridge was on track for a distinguished academic career. He’d studied history and philosophy at Cambridge and Oxford, earning a Ph.D. for ...

For acclaimed vocalist Ian Bostridge, classical music compositions count among the world’s most indispensable works of art—ones that should be as much a part of shared human experience as the poetry ...

Brad Mehldau presents The Folly of Desire, a song cycle inquiring the limits of sexual freedom in a post-#MeToo political age... NEW SONG CYCLE INQUIRING THE LIMITS OF SEXUAL FREEDOM Brad Mehldau ...

Ian Bostridge never stands still: not content with pre-eminence in Schubert and Britten, he has expanded his repertoire into the more obscure reaches of Handel’s music his earlier recording of arias ...

Bostridge studied at Westminster School and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, where he read history and philosophy. He received his doctorate from Oxford, on the significance of witchcraft in ...