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Peter Pears
English tenor
Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears CBE was an English tenor. His career was closely associated with the composer Benjamin Britten, his personal and professional partner for nearly forty years.
Pears' musical career started slowly. Wikipedia
Born: June 22, 1910, Farnham, United Kingdom
Died: April 3, 1986 (age 75 years), Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
Parents: Arthur Grant Pears and Jessie Elizabeth de Visme
Partner: Benjamin Britten (1939–1976; Britten's death)
Songs
Sweet Polly Oliver
Let the Florid Music Praise!
Traditional: The Plough Boy
Come You Not From Newcastle?
The Miller Of Dee
Traditional: O Waly Waly
Traditional: The Foggy Foggy Dew
Traditional: Early One Morning
The Sally Gardens
Puccini: Turandot / Act 2 - Tre enigmi m'hai proposto
Sweet Polly Oliver: Sweet Polly Oliver
The Ash Grove: The Ash Grove
Two Songs: The Pretty Maid Milkin’ Her Cow / The Sprig of Thyme
The Salley Gardens
Traditional: The Last Rose Of Summer
O Waly, Waly
Puccini: Turandot / Act 2 - Gloria, gloria, o vincitore
Nacht und Träume, op. 43 no. 2, D. 827
Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Act 1 - "What Thou Seest When Thou Dost Wake"
Puccini: Turandot / Act 2 - Straniero, ascolta
Britten: Peter Grimes, Op. 33 / Act 1 - "Now the Great Bear and Pleiades"
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22
The Last Rose Of Summer
The Little Sweep Op. 45: "Sweep This Chimney"
Canticle I: My Beloved is Mine
Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac
Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Act 1 - "Fair Love, You Faint With Wand'ring In the Wood"
Winterreise, D. 911: 1VII. Im Dorfe
Auf dem Strom, D. 943
Puccini: Turandot / Act 2 - "Un giuramento atroce mi costringe"
Act II
Nocturnal, after John Dowland Op. 70
Mar 7, 2017 · Ardent and joyful love between composer and tenor is revealed in exhibition marking 50th anniversary of Sexual Offences Act.
Feb 19, 2024 · Sir Peter Pears was a British tenor, a singer of outstanding skill and subtlety who was closely associated with the works of Sir Benjamin ...
Jun 22, 2020 · Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears was one of England's leading tenors in the early twentieth century due, in part, to his close relationship ...
Sir Peter Pears was born in Farnham, in 1910. He was a famous tenor and organist, and studied at the Royal College of Music. Many of Britten's works have ...
Dec 1, 2023 · Sir Peter Pears will always be remembered for his lifelong partnership with Benjamin Britten, some of whose finest music he inspired.
Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears were together from 1939 until Britten's death in 1976. Yet during Britten's lifetime, neither spoke publicly about their r.
Jun 22, 2022 · Tenore Peter Pears (Farnham, 22 giugno 1910 – Aldeburgh, 3 aprile 1986) tenore inglese ...
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Peter Pears was an organ scholar of Hertford College, Oxford. He then studied singing at the Royal College of Music (1933-1934). In 1943 he joined Sadler's ...
Together, in a partnership of nearly forty years, Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears created a remarkable musical legacy. They lived and worked together from 1957 ...