Articles By Ian Bostridge
June 2009
Benjamin Britten's festival proves that in music small is beautiful
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May 2009
When thinking about my voice, I'm more comfortable with metaphor than physiology
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March 2009
Death in Venice poses many questions, among them: moustache or no moustache?
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April 2009
Two 19th-century novels reveal contrasting attitudes to music and its place in Jewish culture
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February 2009
A common cold or the flu can spell disaster for a professional singer
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January 2009
Music grapples with time and transcends philosophy
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December 2008
There is an extraordinary fit between Japanese musical tastes and German Lieder
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November 2008
Young people can be inspirational in the audience, problematic on stage
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October 2008
Unlike rock's phoney rebelliousness, classical music still has the power to challenge entrenched ideas
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August 2008
Intimacy, authenticity and domescity combine to make for a great performance
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July 2008
Despite the name, television drama The Sopranos has nothing to do with opera - or does it?
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June 2008
After a six-year gap, the tenor returns to his first love, singing the Evangelist in both the St Matthew and the St John Passions with Bernard Haitink
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About Ian Bostridge
Ian Bostridge is one of the world's most celebrated operatic and concert tenors. An honorary fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he is the author of Witchcraft and its Transformations. He is on the Advisory Board of Standpoint.
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