Hailed by The New York Times, Opera News, and the San Francisco Chronicle following the world premiere performances of John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra with the San Francisco Opera, Hadleigh Adams is a baritone with a very strong lower extension enabling him to forge a career in both baritone and bass-baritone repertoire. With a repertoire spanning from Rameau and Vivaldi all the way to Ades and Adams, he is an artist equally at home on the opera stage as he is in concert.

This season’s highlights include the role of Agrippa in world premiere of John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra at the San Francisco Opera, Marcutio in Gouod’s Romeo et Juliette with San Diego Opera, and his fourth production of Gregory Spears’ Fellow Travelers in the lead role of Hawkins Fuller with Florida Grand Opera. On the concert platform he performs Handel’s Messiah with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Mozart’s Requiem with the Houston Symphony, Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony at Carnegie Hall, Beethoven 9 with the Seattle Symphony, Carmina Burana with the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Britten’s War Requiem with the Brisbane Philharmonia Orchestra, and Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erder with Wellington Orchestra.

Next Season, Mr Adams marks Mr Adams’ 20th production with the San Francisco Opera In Handel's Partenope (Ormonte). He has numerous concert engagements yet to be publicly released. These will become public as they are announced by the various orchestras/concert halls.

In recent seasons, Stanley Kowalski in Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire at Florida Grand Opera, Gregory Spears’ Fellow Travelers (Hawkins Fuller) at Minnesota Opera, Philip Glass’ la Belle et la Bete with Opera Parallele, Bernstein’s Mass (baritone soloist/Celebrant cover) with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, again with the Chicago Symphony, and a further production at Lincoln Center, Joby Talbot’s Everest with Opera Parallele, and Tosca (Angelotti) with the San Francisco Opera. On the concert platform he performed Beethoven’s Mass in C with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Handel’s Messiah with Houston Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and Apollo’s Fire, and Bach’s Cantata 80 with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

Prior to these seasons he has performed with the London Philharmonia Orchestra in Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex (Creon/Tiresias), London’s Royal National Theatre in staged performances of Bach’s St Matthew Passion (Jesus), la Boheme with the San Francisco Opera (Schaunard), Agrippina with Opera Omaha (Claudio), and the title character in both Vivaldi’s Bajazet, and Castor et Pollux with Pinchgut Opera, Australia’s foremost baroque opera company.

Born in Wellington, New Zealand, Hadleigh is a former Merola Opera artist, San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow, and studied at the Guildhall school of Music And Drama.