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
Germany
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PERSON
Galina Vishnevskaya
LOCATION
Russia
PERSON
Peter Pears
LOCATION
Britain
PERSON
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
LOCATION
Germany