21 Facts About Jerry Hadley

Jerry Hadley received three Grammy awards for his vocal performances in the recordings of Jenufa, Susannah, and Candide .

Jerry Hadley was a leading American tenor for nearly two decades.

Jerry Hadley was mentored by soprano Joan Sutherland and her husband, conductor Richard Bonynge.

Jerry Hadley was born and raised in Manlius, Illinois, of Italian and English parents.

Jerry Hadley attended Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, where he was a member of the Delta Nu chapter of Phi Mu Alpha, a men's music fraternity.

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Jerry Hadley first studied to become a conductor, but after four years turned to singing.

Jerry Hadley studied voice under Dr John Davis while at Bradley, ultimately earning his master's degree in voice at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

Jerry Hadley starred in many School of Music opera productions, including Tamino in Mozart's The Magic Flute, Nemorino in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, Alfred in Johann Strauss II's Die Fledermaus, and Tom Rakewell in The Rake's Progress by Stravinsky.

Jerry Hadley married pianist Cheryll Drake and moved to Connecticut, where he took a job teaching music.

Jerry Hadley became a regular member of the roster of the New York City Opera after his debut there as Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor in 1979.

Jerry Hadley frequently performed at the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Hamburg State Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the San Francisco Opera, the San Diego Opera and the Glyndebourne, Aix-en-Provence and Salzburg festivals.

Jerry Hadley was known for his interpretations of lyric tenor opera roles as well as his performances of Broadway musicals, operetta, and popular music.

Jerry Hadley sang the tenor roles of the bel canto repertory as well as Mozart and the French Romantics .

Jerry Hadley sang the tenor soloist in Handel's Messiah and Verdi's Requiem.

Jerry Hadley sang the role of Tom Rakewell in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress for much of his career, first performing it while a graduate student at the University of Illinois.

In 1996, Jerry Hadley commissioned the composer Daniel Steven Crafts to create music for selected poems by Carl Sandburg.

Jerry Hadley created the role of Don Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva, in Myron Fink's 1997 opera, The Conquistador, and the title role in John Harbison's 1999 The Great Gatsby, based on the novel of the same name.

At the 1998 Salzburg Festival, Jerry Hadley sang the lead tenor role in Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, a staging that was filmed and commercially released.

Jerry Hadley recorded under Richard Bonynge's baton in the bel canto genre, and Leonard Bernstein selected him to sing the title role in a complete 1989 recording of his operetta Candide, led by the composer a year before he died; London concerts of the operetta given that year with the same principal singers, including Hadley, were separately televised and commercially released.

Jerry Hadley performed frequently with the American conductor-pianist Alexander Frey, and at the time of Hadley's death they were planning to record two new solo compact discs of song repertoire of Austria and Hollywood.

Jerry Hadley was taken to St Francis Hospital in Poughkeepsie, New York where CAT scans and X-rays showed severe brain injury; he was put on life support.