Jerry Hadley

Jerry Hadley ( born June 16, 1952 in Princeton, Illinois, † July 18, 2007 in Poughkeepsie, NY, USA) was an American opera singer (tenor ).

Life

Hadley, who grew up in Manlius in the U.S. state of Illinois who attended Bradley University in Peoria. He qualified as a master in singing he took at the University of Urbana- Champaign.

After engagements in his native Illinois Hadley was discovered in 1978 by the American opera singer and director general of the New York City Opera, Beverly Sills, who immediately signed a contract on the New York City Opera offered him, where he made ​​his debut as Arturo Bucklow in Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor was.

Jerry Hadley was in the 1980s to the most promising young singers of the U.S., on the leading opera stages of the world, such as New York's Metropolitan Opera, Milan's La Scala, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin and the Hamburg State Opera and the Salzburg Festival occurred. On the New York Metropolitan Opera, he was celebrated, among other things in his roles as Alfredo in Verdi's La Traviata, and Tamino in Mozart's Magic Flute.

He had his last major appearance in May 2007 as Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton in a new production of Puccini's Madame Butterfly in Brisbane, Australia.

On 10 July 2007 Hadley was found with a gunshot wound to the head unconscious at his home in Clinton. Since Jerry Hadley suffered from depression, the police suspect a suicide attempt. Jerry Hadley died of his injuries on 18 July 2007.

Awards

Hadley was awarded a total of three Grammys: