Robert Tear

Robert Tear CBE ( born March 8, 1939 in Barry, Wales, † March 29, 2011 in London) was a British opera and oratorio singer ( lyric tenor ). He was next to Peter Pears and Philip Langridge as one of the best British tenors of his time.

Career

He studied singing in Cambridge, where he sang in the choir of King's College from 1957 to 1961. He then became a member of the English Opera Group and sang throughout England and on tours abroad, including the best roles of the Britten repertoire. In 1970 he made ​​his debut at Covent Garden in the premiere of Michael Tippett's The Knot Garden. In addition to the English Robert Tear also cultivated the Italian and Russian repertoire and was a highly sought after interpreter of Mozart ( za as Tamino, Belmonte, Idomeneo ).

While Philip Langridge was compared with Nicolai Gedda, Robert Tear vocal and vocal similarities with Peter Schreier were leaving benefits, who had begun his career as well as a church choir and with the Tear, in addition to the Mozart roles, the passion for spiritual singing ( cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach, oratorio by George Frideric Handel ) announced.