Sir Peter Pearrs; "OPERATIC ARIAS"; Benjamin Britten

Описание: Sir Peter Pears---tenor
THE TURN OF THE SCREW; Act I Variation VII; Scene 8 At Hight
"Mile! Miles! Miles1"
Peter Pears---Quint; David Hemmings ---Miles
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THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA; "Rome is now ruled by the Etruscan upstart"
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PETER GRIMES; "Now the Great BEar"
"Old Joe has gone fishing"
"The bridge is down , we half swam over"
"We committed his body to the deep"
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A MIDSUMMER NIHT'S DREAM
"How now , my love? Why is your cheek so pale?"
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ALBERT HERRING
"Albert the Good! Long may he reign"
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OWEN WINGRAVE
"May God bless the Queen"
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DEATH IN VENICE
"The boy , Tadzio, shall inspire me"
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Sir Peter Pears (born June 22, 1910, Farnham, Surrey, England—died April 3, 1986, Aldeburgh, Suffolk) was a British tenor, a singer of outstanding skill and subtlety who was closely associated with the works of Sir Benjamin Britten. He received a knighthood in 1977.


Pears studied at the University of Oxford, at the Royal College of Music, and then with Elena Gerhardt and Dawson Freer. In 1936 he met Britten, and in 1938 he gave the first of many song recitals with Britten as accompanist. The two men became lifelong companions. In 1942 Pears made his opera debut in London in Jacques Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann. He then joined the Sadler’s Wells Opera, where he created the title role in Britten’s Peter Grimes (1945). In 1946 Pears helped Britten found the English Opera Group, and in 1947 they were instrumental in founding the Aldeburgh Festival.

Quick Facts
In full: Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears
Born: June 22, 1910, Farnham, Surrey, England
Died: April 3, 1986, Aldeburgh, Suffolk (aged 75)
Pears sang in the first performances of all of Britten’s operas, including Albert Herring, Billy Budd, Owen Wingrave, and Death in Venice. He also performed notably in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Bedřich Smetana’s The Bartered Bride, and much of the Italian operatic repertory as well as in the song cycles of Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert and the Passions of J.S. "Bachianas Brasilieras Nr. 5"; Heitor Villa-Lobos" britannica.com
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