Peter Pears
Born in Farnham, SurreyBorn on 22nd of June 1910
Died on 3rd of April 1986
Born 1910. Died 1986 - English tenor.
Organ scholar at Hertford College, Oxford. Studied singing at Royal College of Music. Joined Sadler’s Wells in 1943, then the English Opera Group. With Benjamin Britten he co-founded the Aldeburgh Festival in 1948.
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