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s it really already a decade since we lost the singer Robert Tear? The Welshman, who epitomised a certain kind of British tenor, to the eventual discomfort of Benjamin Britten who invited Tear to understudy in 1970 at the Royal Opera House instead of premiering Britten’s .

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