Ian Bostridge

Not just another pretty face

by James Leonard

posted 4/1/2002

He does have a pretty face: imagine a young Oberon from A Midsummer's Night Dream played as an ethereal elf with a boyish glint in his eye. But this elf can sing. Ian Bostridge lacks the sheer power of an operatic tenor, but his voice is light and supple, brightly colored, and well modulated. It's a great art-song voice. And Bostridge is also a

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