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