Ian Bostridge – a life in music

'Even as a child I was unnaturally obsessed with love and death, so in that sense I really was born to sing lieder'A few months ago Ian Bostridge, the 46-year-old English tenor, had what he describes as a "typical midlife dream" in which he anxiously totted up all the things he had done with his life. "There was 18 years of home and school, then three years as an undergraduate and four as a post-graduate student. Then I remembered the couple of years working in television and another three y...

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