Ian made his operatic debut in 1994 as Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Australian Opera at the Edinburgh Festival. In 1996 he made his acclaimed debut with the English National Opera, singing his first Tamino. In 1997 he sang Quint in Deborah Warner's new production of The Turn of the Screw under Sir Colin Davis for the Royal Opera.

In 1997 he made a film of Winterreise for Channel 4 directed by David Alden, and his book Witchcraft and its Transformations 1650-1750 was published by Oxford University Press. He has written on music for the Times Literary Supplement, Opernwelt, BBC Music Magazine, Opera Now and the Independent.

Ian Bostridge's most recent and imminent engagement diary is both prestigious and varied. In May he sang Haydn's Die Schöpfung under James Levine at Carnegie Hall, participated in performances of Britten's War Requiem in Chicago under Mstislav Rostropovich, Mozart's Requiem in Berlin under Daniel Barenboim and Bach's St. John Passion in Paris and London with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Simon Rattle. During the summer he appears in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress at the Munich Festival and gives recitals at the Salzburg and Edinburgh Festivals.

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Ian Bostridge Page on EMI Classics Web site

Ian Bostridge Discography on EMI Classics

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BBC interview with Noël Coward