Surely it was no accident that Ian Bostridge wrote his Oxford dissertation on witchcraft. The young English tenor is possessed by song, and so, through his bewitching vocalism, are we. His Symphony ...

The tenor’s gift for narrative transforms each of these songs by Britten and Schubert into a tiny drama, with elegant accompaniment from the pianist When Deborah Warner took over as artistic director ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. For many years a highlight of the Barbican’s programming has been the surveys of composers’ works put on by the ...

Ian Bostridge has been singing Franz Schubert's Winterreise (Winter Journey) for more than 30 years. In 1997, he was filmed by David Alden performing the song cycle in a entrancing film shot like a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ian Bostridge was born in London and attended St John's College, Oxford, where he secured a First in modern history, then St. John's College, Cambridge, where he received an M.Phil in the history and ...

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 ...