32-582: Irish National Opera is one of Ireland's largest arts organisations and presents opera in Dublin, on tour across Ireland and internationally. Irish National Opera was created from a merger of the Opera Theatre Company ( OTC ) and Wide Open Opera in 2017 and launched in January 2018. Irish National Opera was officially launched on 9 January 2018 with an inaugural concert, The Big Bang! at
64-423: A British Academy post-doctoral fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford , teaching political theory and eighteenth-century British history. His book Witchcraft and Its Transformations, c. 1650–1750 was published as an Oxford Historical Monograph in 1997. This book, "the most sophisticated and original of all recent histories of early modern demonology", according to Professor Stuart Clark, has been influential in
96-899: A double starred first in 1992 at King's College, Cambridge , studying with Alexander Goehr and Robin Holloway . He was appointed Britten Professor of Composition in the Royal Academy of Music and in 2004 was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Essex . In 2007, a retrospective festival of Adès's work was presented at the Barbican Arts Centre in London and he was the focus of Radio France 's annual contemporary music festival, "Présences", and Helsinki's "Musica Nova" festival. The Barbican festival, "Traced Overhead: The Musical World of Thomas Adès", included
128-567: A CD of Adès as a solo performer, "Thomas Adès: Piano", and several CDs as an accompanist, frequently with Ian Bostridge , Steven Isserlis and others. As a student Adès was a percussionist, at one point playing percussion in Stravinsky 's " Les noces " under Sir Simon Rattle. Adès was the first Music Director of the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group from 1998 to 2000. He served as Artistic Director of
160-900: A Carte Blanche season at the Concertgebouw and further artistic residencies in Luxembourg, Hamburg, the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and the Wigmore Hall. On 11 November 2009 Bostridge sang Agnus Dei from Benjamin Britten 's War Requiem , at the Armistice Day service in Westminster Abbey . This uses the words of war poet Wilfred Owen 's " At a Calvary near the Ancre ". The service marked
192-641: A trustee of the newly founded London Centre for the Humanities. A collection of his writings on music, A Singer's Notebook , was published by Faber and Faber in September 2011. It was described by philosopher Michael Tanner , in BBC Music Magazine : "A consistently lively, learned, urbane and passionate book, once opened not likely to be closed until you have read it all." His bestselling book Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession
224-477: Is an English tenor , well known for his performances as an opera and lieder singer. Bostridge was born in London, the son of Leslie Bostridge and Lillian (née Clark). His father was a chartered surveyor. Bostridge is the brother of writer and critic Mark Bostridge , and they are the great-grandsons of the Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper from the early twentieth century, John "Tiny" Joyce . He
256-672: The Aldeburgh Festival from 1999 to 2008, succeeded in 2009 by the pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard. In 2000, he was composer-in-residence of the Ojai Festival in California (along with Mark-Anthony Turnage ), under the artistic direction of Ernest Fleischmann . While there, performances included: He was resident with the Los Angeles Philharmonic during their 2005/6 and 2006/7 seasons as part of
288-551: The Cuvilliés Theatre ). In 1999, he made his debut with the Vienna Philharmonic under Sir Roger Norrington . He works regularly with the pianists Julius Drake , Graham Johnson , Mitsuko Uchida , composer Thomas Adès and Covent Garden music director Antonio Pappano . Other partners at the piano have included Leif Ove Andsnes , Håvard Gimse , Saskia Giorgini , Igor Levit , and Lars Vogt . In
320-953: The English National Opera , singing his first Tamino ( The Magic Flute ). 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 . He has recorded Flute (Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream ) with Sir Colin Davis for Philips Classics; Belmonte ( Die Entführung aus dem Serail ) with William Christie for Erato; Tom Rakewell ( The Rake's Progress ) under John Eliot Gardiner for Deutsche Grammophon (Grammy Award); and Captain Vere ( Billy Budd ) (Grammy Award) with Daniel Harding . In 2007 he appeared at
352-851: The Purcell Room and his Aldeburgh Festival debut in 1994. In 1995, he gave his first solo recital in the Wigmore Hall (winning the Royal Philharmonic Society 's Debut Award). He gave recitals in Lyon , Cologne , London and at the Aldeburgh, Cheltenham and Edinburgh Festivals in 1996 and at the Alte Oper , Frankfurt in 1997. On the concert platform, he has appeared with the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Colin Davis and Mstislav Rostropovich ,
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#1732775994697384-736: The Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Sir Charles Mackerras , and the City of Birmingham Symphony and Berlin Philharmonic under Sir Simon Rattle . His first solo-featured recording was for Hyperion Records , a Britten song recital, The Red Cockatoo with Graham Johnson . His subsequent recording of Die schöne Müllerin in Hyperion's Franz Schubert Edition won the Gramophone 's Solo Vocal Award for 1996. He won
416-773: The Vienna Konzerthaus . In North America he appeared in recitals in New York City at the Frick Collection in 1998 and Alice Tully Hall in 1999 and made his Carnegie Hall debut under Sir Neville Marriner . Also in 1998, he sang Vasek in a new production of The Bartered Bride under Bernard Haitink for the Royal Opera and made his debut at the Munich Festival as Nerone ( L'incoronazione di Poppea ) and in recital ( Winterreise at
448-909: The ENO in the role of Aschenbach in Britten's Death in Venice , in a production by Deborah Warner . In 1997, he made a film of Schubert 's Winterreise for Channel 4 directed by David Alden ; he has been the subject of a South Bank Show profile documentary on ITV and presented the BBC 4 film The Diary of One Who Disappeared about Czech composer Leoš Janáček . He has written for The New York Review of Books , The New York Times , The Guardian , The Times , Financial Times , The Times Literary Supplement , Opernwelt , Gramophone , BBC Music Magazine , Opera Now and The Independent . Later engagements included recitals in Paris, Stockholm, Lisbon, Brussels, Amsterdam and
480-689: The National Concert Hall in Dublin. A national tour of Thomas Adès 's chamber opera Powder Her Face followed in March 2018. Thomas Ad%C3%A8s Thomas Joseph Edmund Adès CBE (born 1 March 1971) is a British composer, pianist and conductor. Five compositions by Adès received votes in the 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000: The Tempest (2004), Violin Concerto (2005), Tevot (2007), In Seven Days (2008), and Polaris (2010). Adès
512-794: The Prix de la Critique 2017/18 (Association Professionelle de la Critique de Théâtre, Musique et Danse). It went on to win the Grand Prix France Musique des Muses in 2019. In 2023 he sang the Evangelist role in a performance of J. S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion with the French ensemble Les Talens Lyriques and the Chœur de chambre de Namur conducted by Christophe Rousset , and also gave concerts of Shakespeare's songs. His book Song and Self: A Singer’s Reflections on Music and Performance
544-606: The UK premiere of a new work for Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic , Tevot . Journalist Tom Service wrote of the piece, "Of any piece of new music I've heard at its premiere, this is one of the most immediately, richly powerful." In the spring of 2007, The Tempest returned to the Royal Opera House . In 2009, Adès was the focus of Stockholm Concert Hall's annual Composer Festival, and in 2010 he
576-656: The University of Oxford, 2014–15 (part of the Humanitas Programme ). In 2020/21 he was a visiting professor at Munich's Hochschule for Music and Theatre . From 2022 on he is giving courses on Schubert Lieder at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna . He gave the inaugural Nicholas Breakspear lecture, "Classical Attitudes: Latin and music through the ages" at the University of Trondheim in 2015; and
608-767: The annual BIRTHA lecture, "Humanity in Song: Schubert's Winter Journey" at the University of Bristol in the same year. He delivered the Lincoln Kirstein Lecture, "Song and Dance", at NYU in 2016. He gave the Berlin Family Lectures at the University of Chicago in April 2021. Bostridge had his own year-long Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall in 2005/6, and a twelve-month residency at the Barbican in 2008, "Homeward Bound". He has had
640-627: The award for Best Chamber Ensemble Composition. In September 2024, he was presented with the Royal Philharmonic Society 's Gold Medal by Simon Rattle at the BBC Proms . In 1993, at age 22, Adès gave his first public piano recital in London as part of the Park Lane Group series of recitals. Adès was a runner-up in the BBC 's Young Musician of the Year competition in 1990. EMI has released
672-517: The loss of the WWI generation, whose last members died earlier the same year. Bostridge performed Kurt Weill 's anti-war Four Walt Whitman Songs in 2014. He also has a long history with directing and performing The Threepenny Opera . In 2013, he performed as part of the Barbican Britten centenary festival in London, and released a new recording of the composer's War Requiem . Bostridge
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#1732775994697704-686: The orchestra's "On Location" series at Walt Disney Concert Hall and other locations. Adès is the Deborah and Philip Edmundson artistic partner with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a position he has held for three years, 2018/2019, 2019/2020, and 2020/2021. The position was created specifically for him. DVD Audio CD as composer as performer See Venn & Stoecker 2021 , pp. 283–298 and Venn 2014 , pp. 95–97 for extensive bibliographies Ian Bostridge Ian Charles Bostridge CBE (born 25 December 1964)
736-737: The prize again in 1998 for a recording of Robert Schumann Lieder with his regular collaborator, the pianist Julius Drake and again in 2003 for Schumann's Myrthen and duets with Dorothea Röschmann and Graham Johnson, as part of the Hyperion Schumann edition. An EMI Classics exclusive artist since 1996, he is a 15-time Grammy Award nominee and 3-time winner. His CDs have won all of the major record prizes including Grammy, Edison, Japanese Recording Academy, Brit, South Bank Show Award , Diapason d'Or de l'Année, Choc de l'Année, Echo Klassik and Deutsche Schallplattenpreis. His recording of Schubert's "Die Forelle" with Julius Drake forms part of
768-531: The soundtrack of the 2011 film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows . His album of Shakespeare Song for Warner Classics won the 2017 Grammy award and the Echo Klassik award for solo vocal. Bostridge made his operatic debut in 1994, aged 29, as Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream with Opera Australia at the Edinburgh Festival, directed by Baz Luhrmann . In 1996, he made his debut with
800-649: The study of the pre-Enlightenment . It "achiev[es] that rarest of feats in the scholarly world: taking a well-worn subject and ensuring that it will never be looked at in quite the same way again" ( Noel Malcolm , TLS ). In 1991 he won the National Federation of Music Societies Award and from 1992 received support from the Young Concert Artists Trust. Bostridge began singing professionally at age 27. He made his Wigmore Hall debut in 1993, followed by an acclaimed Winterreise at
832-439: The summer of 2000 Bostridge gave the fifth annual Edinburgh University Festival Lecture entitled "Music and Magic". In 2004, Bostridge was made CBE for his services to music. He is an Hon RAM, honorary fellow of Corpus Christi College , St John's College, and Wolfson College Oxford , and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of St Andrews in 2003. He was Humanitas Professor of Classical Music and Education at
864-592: Was a Queen's Scholar at Westminster School . He attended St John's College , Oxford , where he secured a First in modern history and St John's College , Cambridge , where he received an M.Phil. degree in the history and philosophy of science . He was awarded his D.Phil. degree in history from Oxford in 1990, on the significance of witchcraft in English public life from 1650 to 1750, supervised by Sir Keith Thomas . He worked in television current affairs and documentaries for two years in London before becoming
896-721: Was appointed foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music . On 8 October 2015, Adès was elected into the Board of Directors of the European Academy of Music Theatre. For 2022 he was awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Music and Opera. Adès won an Ivor Novello Award at The Ivors Classical Awards 2023. Növények , for mezzo-soprano and piano sextet won
928-480: Was born in London to art historian Dawn Adès and poet Timothy Adès . His surname is of Syrian Jewish origin. Adès is gay and identified his sexuality closely with the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in his youth. Adès studied piano with Paul Berkowitz and later composition with Robert Saxton at Guildhall School of Music and Drama , London. After attending University College School , he achieved
960-596: Was for a time the music columnist for Standpoint magazine, the monthly publication launched in 2008 "to celebrate Western civilisation" and served on the magazine's advisory board. He has been Prospect magazine's classical columnist since 2023. He is a Youth Music Ambassador, a patron of the Music Libraries Trust and of the Macmillan Cancer Support Guards Chapel Carol Concert. Since 2023 he has been
992-635: Was published by Faber and Faber in the UK and by Knopf in the US in January 2015. It has been published in German, Finnish, Dutch, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Swedish, Polish, Mandarin, simplified Chinese, Mandarin, French, Russian, and Spanish editions. It won the Duff Cooper Prize for non-fiction for 2015, the Prix Littéraire des Musiciens in 2018 and was named the best music book of the year in
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1024-470: Was published in 2023 by Chicago University Press in the US, Faber and Faber in the UK and C.H Beck in Germany ( das Lied und das Ich) ; and will be published by Acantilado in Spain, Il Saggiatore in Italy and Artes in Japan. In 1992, Bostridge married the writer and publisher Lucasta Miller , and they have a son and a daughter. His brother is the biographer and critic Mark Bostridge . He lists his hobbies as reading, cooking, and looking at pictures. He
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