Jerry Hadley- "Maria" (West Side Story) - 1992

[rad2damax]

RIP Jerry.. Great performance. Great Talent. We miss you.

[rogharm]

great voice and great orchestration love it!!!! ROGHARM thank you poster!!!!!! great performance.

[intelegentable]

Hadley should have sung Tony on the Recording instead of Carreras, Jose's heavily accented english distorted the text and made you wonder just who were the Puerto Ricans and who were the Americans, it did not work for me. Hadley had the gorgeous sound and he was American as apple pie. Why do we pass over our homegrown talent for Europeans who are not as versatile or flexible as our artist who can do it all? Will we never learn?

[hightenor123]

@intelegentable Unfortunately Jerry was only 32 when that CD was made in '84 and only beginning to establish himself. I feel certain that if the CD was done in 1990, after he had become Bernstein's favorite American Tenor (his chosen Rodolfo and Candide) he would have been tony. It would have been fantastic

[alexmz123]

@intelegentable Yes, Carreras was not convincing as Tony! Look at this wonderful performance of Jerry and one can certainly wish that he did the recording!

[Marc76L]

ottimo tenore!!!! Bravissimo!!!!

[MrCafiero]

He is in excellent voice here.