Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Peter Pears; Benjamin Britten NPG 5136

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Kenneth Green

Britten (shown right) studied composition with Frank Bridge and won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in 1930. Britten emigrated to the USA in 1939 with his life-partner Peter Pears (shown left), returning in 1942. The lead role in Peter Grimes, the first of Britten's ten operas, was written for Pears. It premiered at Sadler’s Wells in 1945. Billy Budd (1951) was commissioned for the Festival of Britain, and the War Requiem (1962) for the consecration of Coventry Cathedral. Life-long partners, they... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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