Winter 2023
Britten’s War Requiem
Brisbane Symphony Orchestra
QUEENSLAND PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE
October 2023
CARMINA BURANA
SYDNEY PHILHARMONIA
SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
NOVEMBER 2023
BEETHOVEN’S 9TH SYMPHONY
SEATTLE SYMPHONY
SEATTLE SYMPHONY HALL
DECEMBER 2023
AMERICAN BACH SOLOISTS
Herbst Theatre
SAN FRANCISCO
JANUARY 2024
Mr Adams made his Carneige Hall Debut in April of 2023 as the baritone soloist in Vaughan William’s epic:
A Sea Symphony
Recent news
San Francisco Opera
Antony & Cleopatra
John Adams
World Premiere
Reviews:
“Hadleigh Adams enabled Agrippa’s ardent conviction to came through in every aspect of this dramatic role.”
OperaWire
“Noteworthy was the role of Caesar’s lieutenant Agrippa, sung by baritone Hadleigh Adams, finding the complex, internal rhythms of composer Adams’ texts, and making his lines incisive and musically real. Agrippa suffered his beating by Anthony’s thugs with great aplomb.”
Opera Today
“Alfred Walker and Hadleigh Adams are both firm as aides to the Roman rulers”
New York Times
“Hadleigh Adams’ burnished baritone lends itself to his smooth-tongued Agrippa, a decent man, one senses, struggling to solve an insoluble puzzle.”
Limelight Magazine
A Streetcar named Desire
-Stanley-
Florida Grand Opera
Reviews
“New Zealand baritone Hadleigh Adams proved nothing short of heroic in assuming the role on less than a week’s notice. Adams excelled at the role’s few tender moments with Stella where his vocal palette took on great warmth and bloom. His English diction was exceptionally clear.”
South Florida Classical Review
Adams celebrates 100th performance @
San Francisco OPera
In the middle of the company’s 100th season, Adams celebrated his 100th performance with the company on the opening night of Dialogues des Carmelites. Dialogues marks his 19th production with the company in just ten years.
Ancelotti, Tosca - San Francisco Opera 2018
Photo - Cory Weaver
Schaunard, la Boheme - San Francisco Opera 2018
Photo - Cory Weaver
Romeo et
Juliette
-Mercutio-
San Diego
opera
Reviews
”The lushly-cast production included rich-voiced baritone Hadleigh Adams as Romeo’s doomed kinsman Mercutio.”
The San Diego Union Tribune
“As Roméo’s closest friend Mercutio, the hearty baritone Hadleigh Adams gave a commanding account of his bravura Queen Mab aria, “Mab, reine des mensonges,” boldly striding back and forth on a long banquet table center stage as he tossed off those spicy couplets.”
San Diego Story
“Of note was baritone Hadleigh Adams as Mercutio, whose Queen Mab aria was delivered with elegance and verve.”
Opera West
Seattle Symphony
Beethoven 9
Dec 26-31 2023
Mr Adams joined the Seattle Symphony in their year closing celebrations with Beethoven’s Ninth symphony.
Review:
”The introductory instrumental section of the finale was grippingly dramatic. As the first human voice to be heard, baritone Hadleigh Adams turned the musical tide with rafter-shaking force.”The Seattle Times
Quartett, West Edge Opera - Fall 2019
“The two singers delivered astonishingly fearless performances. Baritone Hadleigh Adams was an impressive Valmont, singing with dark strength and supple, expressive tone.”
“Much of the production’s success rests on the fearless, steely and musically alert performances of Buck and Adams. Both of them are well known locally as artists who never shy away from a challenge, but their contributions here — which combine imperious technical panache and a lingering air of vulnerability — are on a whole new level.
“I hope my performance did not bore you,” Adams’ characters sings — hopefully, archly, slightly menacingly — toward the end of the opera. Not in the least, my friend; not in the least.”