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Bostridge has worked extensively as an operatic tenor, with appearances including Lysander ('A Midsummer Night's Dream') for Opera Australia at the Edinburgh Festival, Tamino and Jupiter (‘Semele’) for English National Opera and Quint ('The Turn of the Screw'), Don Ottavio and Caliban (Adès’s ‘The Tempest’) for the Royal Opera. He also sang Aschenbach (‘Death in Venice’) for English National Opera, also seen at the Monnaie, Brussels and in Luxembourg.
He has also worked with world renowned orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, London Symphony and New York Philharmonic orchestras. In January 2010 he sang the world premiere of Henze’s “Opfergang” with the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome under Antonio Pappano and in March 2013 sang Stravinsky’s “Oedipus Rex” with Angelika Kirchschlager and H.K. Gruber in Manchester and Vienna.
Future plans include the first performance in Moscow of ‘Death in Venice’ (conducted by Rozhdestvensky) and major Britten residencies in Carnegie Hall and London’s Barbican.
Ian Bostridge is also a well-established recording artist, and his recordings have won all the major international record prizes and has been nominated for 12 Grammys. Under his exclusive contract with EMI Classics, recordings include Schubert Lieder and Schumann Lieder (Gramophone Award 1998), English song and Henze Lieder with Julius Drake, Britten's 'Our Hunting Fathers' with Daniel Harding, Britten Orchestral cycles with the Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle, Handel Arias with Harry Bicket, Britten’s Canticles and both Britten’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’ (Gramophone Award, 2003) and ‘Billy Budd’ (Grammy Award, 2010), Adés’s ‘The Tempest’ (Gramophone Award 2010) and ‘Three Baroque Tenors’ with the English Concert and Bernard Labadie.
Bostridge’s most recent recording for EMI is ‘Britten Songs’ featuring Antonio Pappano and Xuefei Yang, celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the composer’s birth.