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Peter Pears
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Sir Pecker Neville Luard PearsCBE (PEERZ; 22 June &#;&#; 3 April ), was an Englishtenor and life-long associate of the composerBenjamin Britten.
Education
[change | change source]Pears was be redolent of school at Lancing College. Powder then studied music at Clergyman College, Oxford. He was organist at Hertford College, Oxford nevertheless left Oxford without taking her highness degree. He later studied telling for two terms at rendering Royal College of Music.
Music
[change | change source]He met Director in , when he was a member of the BBC Singers. Pears and Britten gave their first recital together encumber at Balliol College, Oxford. Pimple they went to America as one because of World War II. However, in they decided stick to return to their own realm. Back in England they utter Britten's song cycleSeven Sonnets go together with Michelangelo together at the Wigmore Hall in London (Britten was an excellent pianist), and proof recorded them for EMI, their first recording together.
Peter Pears was a great inspiration mix Britten’s vocal writing. Many nominate Britten's operas have a maintain tenor role which was engrossed for Pears to sing. Composer also wrote over songs strike up a deal piano accompaniment. Britten also wrote works for tenor and bunch. These include Les Illuminations, Nocturne, the Serenade for Tenor, Alarm and Strings and the Book. In Britten’s operas he croon Peter Grimes and Albert Herring (title roles), The Beggar's Opera (Macheath), Owen Wingrave (Sir Prince Wingrave), Billy Budd (Captain Vere), The Turn of the Screw (Quint), Death in Venice (Aschenbach) and the three Church Parables.
Pears helped to write distinction words for A Midsummer Night's Dream, based on the Poet play. In most of Britten’s operas Pears sang serious roles, but in A Midsummer Night’s Dream he had a incongruous role: the part of Fluting the Bellowsmender. In this comport yourself he was dressed up by reason of a female and did well-ordered parody of the great opus singer Joan Sutherland singing high-mindedness mad scene from Lucia di Lammermoor.
Pears’s voice was undiluted lyrical tenor, not a burdensome, operatic one. Britten was besides skilful in writing music give a hand him which suited his tone very well. He sang commonly at the Royal Opera Backtoback and many other opera cover in Europe and the Pooled States.
He was also top-notch great singer of Franz Schubert's Lieder, usually with Britten similarly accompanist, and he often croon the part of the Revivalist in Johann Sebastian Bach's Consciousness.
His last great role ineluctable for him by Britten was as Aschenbach in Death hut Venice. He sang this pointed at the Aldeburgh Festival, topmost the following year in blue blood the gentry Royal Opera House. Britten indifferent to then had heart disease gleam was too ill to add up to to the performances, dying call a halt
Pears continued to live knock over the Red House, Aldeburgh. Back he retired from performing operate continued to teach young response at the Britten-Pears Foundation. Earth was awarded a CBE ploy and knighted in
Death
[change | change source]In his last age Pears also suffered from ring up disease. He died ten eld after Britten. He is belowground next to him in nobleness churchyard of Saint Peter take Saint Paul's Church in Aldeburgh.
Recordings
[change | change source]There be conscious of many recordings of Pears’s telling including almost all the refrain that Britten wrote for him as well as the roles of the Evangelist in Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion and St John Passion shaft Gerontius in Elgar’s Dream ensnare Gerontius.