Ian Bostridge

Ian Bostridge, December 2014

Ian Bostridge , CBE (born December 25, 1964 in London ) is a British opera singer ( tenor ) who also acts as a lieder singer .

Life

education

The working-class son Ian Bostridge studied history and philosophy at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and after receiving his doctorate on witchcraft (1990) initially worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Corpus Christi College (Oxford) . Professionally, he turned to singing in 1992. He made his debut at Wigmore Hall in 1993.

Career

Concerts (selection)

• Wigmore Hall debut 1993
• Purcell Room debut (with Schubert's Winterreise ) 1994
• Aldeburgh Festival debut 1994
• First solo recital at Wigmore Hall (won the Royal Philharmonic Society 's Debut Award) in 1995
• Recitals in Lyon , Cologne , London, Aldeburgh, Cheltenham and Edinburgh in 1996
• Recital in the Alte Oper , Frankfurt am Main 1997
• Further recitals in Paris , Stockholm , Lisbon , Brussels , Amsterdam and in the Wiener Konzerthaus
• In the USA recitals in New York at the Frick Collection and Alice Tully Hall
• 1999 Carnegie Hall debut under Sir Neville Marriner .
• 1998 Schubert's winter journey in the Cuvilliéstheater , Munich
• Regular guest at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg
• Concert appearances and a. with the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Colin Davis and Mstislaw Rostropovich , the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Sir Charles Mackerras and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle

See also : Julius Drake

Opera (selection)

• 1994 Opera debut as Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Australian Opera at the Edinburgh Festival
• 1996 debut at the English National Opera , for the first time as Tamino in the Magic Flute
• 1997 appearance as Quint in Deborah Warner's new production of Benjamin Britten -opera The Turn of the Screw under Sir Colin Davis for the Royal Opera
• In 1998 he sang Vasek in a new production of The Bartered Bride under Bernard Haitink for the Royal Opera
• 1998 Debut at the Munich Opera Festival ( Bavarian State Opera ) as Nerone ( L'incoronazione di Poppea )
• 1999 debut with the Vienna Philharmonic under Sir Roger Norrington

2016 as The Prologue and Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw at La Scala in Milan

Honors

• In 2004 Ian Bostridge was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to music .
• In 2013 he received the ECHO Klassik for Opera Recording of the Year (Opera of the 20th / 21st century).
• In 2014 he was again awarded the ECHO Klassik in the solo recording of the year category (singing) .
• In 2015, Bostridges Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession was awarded the Duff Cooper Prize .

Publications

Sound carrier (selection)

• Shakespeare Songs (Warner Classics, 2016) with Antonio Pappano , Elizabeth Kenny, Michael Collins, Lawrence Power, Adam Walker
• Autograph (Warner Classics, 2015)
• Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin , Winterreise , Schwanengesang (Warner Classics, 2015)
• Britten: Songs with Antonio Pappano (EMI Classics, 2013)
• Britten: The Rape of Lucretia with Angelika Kirchschlager (Virgin Classics, 2013)
• Three Baroque Tenors Arias (EMI Classics, 2010)
• Adès: The Tempest with Thomas Adès (EMI Classics, 2009)
• Schubert: Schwanengesang with Antonio Pappano (EMI Classics, 2009)
• Schubert: The Wanderer: Songs and Fragments with Leif Ove Andsnes (EMI Classics, 2008)
• Great Handel arias with Harry Bickett (EMI Classics, 2007)
• Schubert: Songs and Sonatas with Leif Ove Andsnes (EMI Classics, 2007)
• Britten: Les Illuminations, Serenade, Nocturne with Simon Rattle (EMI Classics, 2005)
• Schubert: 25 songs with Julius Drake (EMI Classics, 2005)
• Schubert: The beautiful miller's wife with Mitsuko Uchida (EMI Classics, 2005)
• Schubert: Winterreise with Leif Ove Andsnes (EMI Classics, 2004)
• Monteverdi: L'Orfeo with Emmanuelle Haïm (Virgin Classics, 2004)
• Bach: Arias and Cantatas with Fabio Biondi (Virgin Classics, 2000)
• Handel: L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato with John Nelson (Virgin Classics, 2000)
• The English Songbook with Julius Drake (EMI Classics, 1999)
• Schumann: Liederkreis Op. 24, Dichterliebe Op. 48, 7 songs with Julius Drake (EMI Classics, 1998)

Filmography

• 1997 Winterreise ( Channel 4 , directed by David Alden )

Works

• Witchcraft and its Transformations: 1650-1750 . Clarendon Press 1997, ISBN 0-19-820653-4 . Dissertation Oxford 1990
• The Book of Songs . Faber and Faber 2005, ISBN 0-571-22439-3
• A Singer's Notebook . Faber and Faber 2011, ISBN 978-0-571-25245-9
• Schubert's Winter Journey: anatomy of an obsession . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015
  • Schubert's winter journey. Songs of love and pain . Translated from the English by Annabell Zettel. Munich: CH Beck, 2015

Web links

• Works by and about Ian Bostridge in the catalog of the German National Library
• About Ian Bostridge
• Ian Bostridge at Warner Classics

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Elmar Krekeler: The book of songs. Review in: The Literary World , September 5, 2015, p. 3.
2. ^ Lunch with the FT: Ian Bostridge. In: Financial Times, November 8, 2013, accessed November 2, 2016.
3. ↑ Laura Macy: The Grove Book of Opera Singers. ISBN 9780195337655 .
4. ↑ echoklassik.de - Prize Winner 2013 ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 8, 2013  
5. ↑ Echoklassik.de Klassik Prize Winner 2014 ( Memento from January 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 26, 2014
6. ^ Autograph at Warner Classics .
7. ↑ Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin, Winterreise, Schwanengesang at Warner Classics .