Pears, Sir Peter /pɪəz $ pɪərz/ BrE AmE
(1910–86) a British ↑ tenor (=a male singer with a fairly high voice) . In 1948 he started the ↑ Aldeburgh Festival with his ↑ partner , the musician Benjamin ↑ Britten , who wrote a lot of ↑ vocal music and operas for him.