It is sung by the voices that were to have sung the first performance a year before , pointedly drawn from three World War II combatants : Galina Vishnevskaya from Russia -LRB- who had to cancel the premiere -RRB- , Peter Pears from Britain and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau from Germany .
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau /people/person/nationality Germany
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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Germany
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