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Pears, Sir Peter
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Pears, Sir Peter, 1910–86, English tenor. Pears studied at the Royal College of Music and became a member of the Sadler's Wells Opera and the English Opera Group. In 1948 he made his Covent Garden debut. He worked closely with Benjamin Britten from 1946. Together they made a number of international tours, presenting works by Britten and other English composers. Pears sang many premieres of Britten operas, including Peter Grimes, Billy Budd, Gloriana, and The Turn of the Screw. In 1974 he made his Metropolitan Opera debut singing Aschenbach in Britten's opera Death in Venice, based on the novella by Thomas Mann. He was knighted in 1978.
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Frederick Ashton was the producer; it was designed by one of our best English painters, John Piper; and fabulously well acted by Joan Gross, one of our greatest sopranos, as Lady Billows, and Peter Pears as Albert Herring with Mabel Ritchie, a very light coloratura soprano, as Miss Wordsworth--I could go on through the whole cast for there was not a single flaw in that cast, nor was there in the whole production.
An interview with Benjamin Britten by Mercer, Ruby / Opera Canada
Born in Lowestoft, on England's East Anglia coast, Britten spent most of his adult life roughly 30 miles south at Aldeburgh -- first in a seafront house with his life partner, Peter Pears, and later at The Red House, now home to the Britten-Pears Foundation.
FITNESS FOR THE PERSECUTION by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
Nigel Robson's best passages came during his Part Two recitatives and airs, when he displayed a melancholy tone that was somewhat reminiscent of Peter Pears.
Sophisticated touch in this Choral Messiah; REVIEW TITLE Messiah, ... by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
 
 
 
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