Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Peter Pears NPG 5909

Photograph © National Portrait Gallery, London

by Georg Ehrlich

Pears met Benjamin Britten in 1934, when he was a member of the BBC Singers. They gave their first recital together in 1937 at Balliol College, Oxford. Britten wrote for Pears a variety of leading roles in almost all his principal operas, from Peter Grimes (1945) to Death in Venice (1973). Pears made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in October 1974 as Aschenbach in Death in Venice. He sang regularly at the Royal Opera House and other opera houses in Europe and the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.