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 ...

Borosini had an exceptionally wide compass: it’s fascinating to see, in the settings of “Forte e lieto”, how Gasparini and Handel exploited his baritone range. And there’s the rub: the vocal line ...

I reflected on that several times while watching Ian Bostridge singing it during this EIF Queen’s Hall recital, because his identification with the songs and their meaning seemed so complete that he ...

Semele, Movements: ~ Harry Bicket, Conductor Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment George Frideric Handel, Composer Ian Bostridge, Tenor Messiah, Movements: Comfort ye my people Ian Bostridge, Tenor ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...