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Robert Tear
Barry, United Kingdom
Robert Tear is credited on 1,343 releases across 261 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1959–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
1,343
Pressings credited
261
Albums
8
Decades active
5
In collections
Biography
Robert Tear, CBE (8 March 1939 – 29 March 2011) was a Welsh tenor singer, teacher and conductor. He first became known singing in the operas of Benjamin Britten in the mid-1960s. From the 1970s until his retirement in 1999 his main operatic base was the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; he appeared with other opera companies in the UK, mainland Europe, the US and Australia. Generally avoiding the Italian repertoire, which did not suit his voice, Tear became known in leading and character roles in German, British and Russian operas. Tear's concert repertoire was wide, extending from music from the 17th century to contemporary works by Britten, Tippett and others. He conducted for some years from the mid-1980s, but found himself temperamentally unsuited to it. As a teacher at the Royal Academy of Music he was happier, and was well regarded by colleagues and pupils.
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Credited work
1,343 releases · 261 albums · active 1959–2025
- Performance · 1,604
- Other credits · 30
- Mastering · 4
Studios: Kingsway Hall · Chapel Of King's College, Cambridge · Abbey Road Studios · Studio Lukaskirche, Dresden
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Mozart
- Various
- Beethoven
- Benjamin Britten
- Britten
- Haydn
- Handel
- Monteverdi
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