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Ian Bostridge

Ian Bostridge is an English tenor, acclaimed for his performances and recordings of both operatic works and lieder, as well as the author of four books. This essay is adapted from his forthcoming Song and Self: A Singer’s Reflections on Music and Performance, to be published by the University of Chicago Press.

Mortal Music

Mortal Music 

Franz Schubert, silence, and the final reckoning

by Ian Bostridge | Wednesday, March 01, 2023
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Songs of Innocence and Experience

On Schubert’s sublime late vocal masterwork

by Ian Bostridge | Wednesday, December 10, 2014

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The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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