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James Pease

Born 9 Jan 1916Died 26 Apr 1967United States0 albums

American opera singer (1916-1967)

Biography

James Pease (9 January 1916, in Indianapolis – 26 April 1967, in New York City) was an American bass-baritone, notable for his Wagnerian roles. He was also a distinguished Balstrode in Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes, a role which he was the first to perform in the US in 1946, and later recorded under the composer's direction in 1958.

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Songs recorded

  1. Peter Grimes, Act III: To Hell With All Your Mercy3 versions
  2. ACT THREE. Recitative: More trouble is behind, for Harapha (Micah, Samson, Harapha)
  3. Air: Honour and arms scorn such a foe (Harapha)
  4. Air: Presuming slave, to move their wrath! (Harapha)
  5. Don Giovanni: Là ci darem la mano (Reich mir die Hand, mein Leben)
  6. Duet: Go, baffled coward, go (Samson, Harapha)
  7. Peter Grimes, op. 33, Act 1: "And do you prefer the storm"
  8. Peter Grimes, op. 33, Act 1: "Have you heard?"
  9. Peter Grimes, op. 33, Act 1: "Hi! give us a hand"
  10. Peter Grimes, op. 33, Act 1: "Look, the storm cone!"
  11. Peter Grimes, op. 33, Act 1: "Now the Great Bear and Pleiades"
  12. Peter Grimes, op. 33, Act 1: "Oh, hang at open doors"
  13. Peter Grimes, op. 33, Act 1: "Past time to close!"
  14. Peter Grimes, op. 33, Act 1: "We live and let live"
  15. Peter Grimes, op. 33, Act 2: "Fool to let it come to this!"
  16. Peter Grimes, op. 33, Act 2: "People!...No! I will speak!"
  17. Peter Grimes, op. 33, Act 2: "Swallow! Shall we go"
  18. Peter Grimes, op. 33, Act 2: "We planned that their lives"
  19. Peter Grimes, op. 33, Act 2: "What is it?"
  20. Peter Grimes, op. 33, Act 3: "Come along, Doctor!"
  21. Peter Grimes, op. 33, Act 3: "Embroidery in childhood"
  22. Peter Grimes, op. 33, Act 3: "Peter, we've come to take you home"
  23. Recitative: Can’st thou for this, vain boaster? (Samson, Harapha)
  24. Recitative: Dagon, arise, attend thy sacred feast! (Harapha)
  25. Recitative: She’s gone! A serpent manifest (Micah, Samson, Harapha)
  26. The Mastersingers of Nuremburg: Act III. Quintet
  27. The Mastersingers of Nuremburg: Act III. Sachs/Eva Scene “Good day, my Eva” / Prize Song
  28. The Mastersingers of Nuremburg: Act III. “Fools, fools, everywhere fools”
  29. Winter's End

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