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Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears CBE (/ ˈ p ɪər z / PEERZ; 22 June 1910 – 3 April 1986) 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.
Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears (ur. 22 czerwca 1910 w Farnham, zm. 3 kwietnia 1986 w Aldeburghu [1]) – angielski tenor. Życiorys. Pobierał nauki w Lancing College. Studiował muzykę w Keble College w Oksfordzie i jednocześnie pracował jako organista w Hertford College, studiów jednak nie ukończył.
Sir Peter Pears [full name: Peter Neville Luard Pears] was a famous tenor and organist. 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 Wells.
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.
22 cze 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 with Benjamin Britten. Pears premiered nearly all of Britten’s most notable works.
Singer Catherine Bott salutes the English tenor Peter Pears - so closely linked to the life and career of Benjamin Britten, but a master in many other areas of song too.
In the following years Pears sang the leading tenor roles in Britten’s operas, including The Rape of Lucretia (1946), Albert Herring (1947), Billy Budd (1951), Gloriana (1953), The Turn of the Screw (1954), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (which he co-adapted with Britten) (1960), the dramatic church parable Curlew River (1964), Owen Wingrave ...
